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Three days a week, Kossow wakes up at 5:30 a.m. in his first floor room at 29 Garden St., grabs his cab voucher provided by the athletic department and hopes in the back seat of a taxi so he won't be late to 6 a.m. swim practice at Blodgett Pool...
...Taxi drivers, restauranteurs and hotel managers have all been guests of the mayor, and local artists and senior citizens are scheduled for future discussions...
Global presence? Those are big words from a company that was so hard up two years ago its officers told its pilots to taxi out to the runways on one engine instead of two in order to save fuel. In one swift maneuver, Continental may have swerved away from a penurious future as a second-tier operator and headed back toward the front ranks of major carriers. Within hours of Ferguson's announcement, the industry was buzzing with talk of other new partners that might extend the Houston airline's reach in Asian and other markets...
...story of Glass's 1976 debut at the Met with Einstein on the Beach has become the stuff of legend: how he sold out the rented house on two successive Sundays, crystallized New York's nascent minimalist movement and then went back to driving a taxi until the zeitgeist caught up with him and collaborator Robert Wilson a few years later. Since then, Glass has scored with such operas as Satyagraha (his masterpiece) and Akhnaten. But with the Met's imprimatur on The Voyage, Glass's long journey from obscure avant- gardist to mainstream cultural icon has been culminated...
Setting out from a hiding place in the woods near the Palestinian town of Jenin, they drive through the West Bank hills in a banged-up taxi and are greeted with friendly waves by Palestinians who clearly do not suspect that the men are Israeli infiltrators. Soon the commandos reach their destination, a small house outside Jenin. Inside, they hope to find Munir Jaradat, 18, allegedly a member of an armed Palestinian group that calls itself the Red Eagles. Weapons drawn, the soldiers storm the house, but they find only two frightened women, a boy and a younger child...