Word: subways
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Sullivan attributed the changes to the demolition of the subway yards in the late 1970s, where the School of Government now stands, and the closing of the University Press Printing Plant...
...became Asia's favorite South Korean actress by shattering stereotypes. "Korean women have been portrayed generally as submissive, but that's simply not true," she says. Her opening scene in Sassy buries that possibility: she wobbled drunk onto a subway train, vomited on a stranger's toupee and passed out in the arms of a scandalized young man (Cha Tae Hyun). Jun's bossy character quickly took control of her timid boyfriend's life. Through it all, Jun was in charge, and audiences loved it. Wild, free and utterly herself, Jun became a model for an assertive generation of young...
...We’re definitely going to use the PBH vans, and I think we’ll end up subsidizing a few subway passes,” Byrd said. “They already have reduced fares in Boston, but I think we can work out something with [the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority] for free field trips...
Forget the national Opera?today's up-and-coming performers would rather be heard on the subway. Paris' transit authority RATP is fast becoming a hotly contested sound stage. Since 1997, Antoine Naso, a 21-year RATP veteran and the authority's self-designated artistic director, has selected a range of entertainers to fill the Metro's tentacular halls with world music, rock and jazz standards or classical melodies...
...Work originally scheduled to be completed by April now has a wish-and-a-prayer July deadline, without landscaping or other embellishments. But the roof worked, and there are other bright spots. Greece has finished, on time, a brand-new airport, the Olympic village and parts of a new subway. The Markopoulo Equestrian Center is "an Olympic venue par excellence," said British equestrian Matt Straker, attending a recent test event. Athens itself, an ancient city with enough noisy charm to put Sydney and Atlanta to shame, is being spruced up. Some of the city's 60,000 stray cats...