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...private donations, with the rest coming from ticket sales. But last month Berlin Cultural Senator Thomas Flierl announced cost-cutting plans to reduce staff and jointly administer the city's three opera houses - the Staatsoper plus the Deutsche Oper and Komische Oper. Flierl's rescue plan is viewed with suspicion by the management of the opera houses. The Staatsoper, which last year had a financial surplus of €7.2 million, will be obliged to transfer its savings to the cash-strapped Komische Oper. Many fear that the plan may save money only at the cost of quality and diversity...
...Looks like someone’s been a naughty girl!” crows Pappas. He’s caught Falkner eating her apple crisp before the ham and ravioli. The ravioli, says Pappas, is a great treat, but riddled with sodium. Same with the ham. Despite his initial suspicion, by the end of the conversation, Falkner is in Pappas’ good graces. “She’s a sweet young girl. She deserves the apple crisp...
...game has created an atmosphere of constant suspicion and fear. Anna Solovyev ’06, who as of press time is still alive, says that the game is fun, but “it makes people really paranoid, like me not wanting to go out of my room.” Chadbourne, on the other hand, sees the paranoia as “what’s great about the game. If you let your guard down for a minute you lose...
...Benefit. That benefit costs the U.K. government some €3.6 billion a year more than unemployment benefit. And the longer you're on Incapacity Benefit, the higher the payout becomes. Says Clare Hinkley, policy adviser to the Human Resources Directorate at the Confederation of British Industry: "There is some suspicion ... that this acts as an incentive for people to go onto Incapacity Benefit and not get off." Just as some businesses benefit from creating false sick workers, so, too, do some European governments use disability rolls to disguise unemployment numbers. In the past 15 years or so, U.K. unemployment...
...poke at the imitation meat with suspicion, unable to identify it by texture or taste. The menu had also proclaimed something called “vegetarian ham” and “vegetarian scallop.” Tony dismisses my apprehensions. “Here we cook the way Buddhists from Taiwan’s Fo Guang Shan sect cook,” he says. “The food is purely vegetarian. No dairy products, garlic or onions are used.” The omission of garlic and onions, a custom also practiced in strict vegetarian Hindu households...