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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...
...Recently, London's Underground and transit systems in Rotterdam and Tokyo approached Naso for tips on how to set up similar tryouts. The Metro's liveliest stages include Ch?telet, with bands performing Latin American music and New Orleans jazz, and the Bastille, where Matsumiya regularly performs because, she says, it has "good acoustics." And Metronauts...
...Luongo, a part-time inspector for the Massachusetts Transit Authority sitting on a bench across the street from Chili’s, said that he was also unaware the restaurant had closed...
...says Paul Buchanan, a former U.S. defense and security consultant who teaches politics at Auckland University. "And the logistics of trying to mount an attack here are rather insurmountable." The only reasons a terrorist might visit New Zealand, Buchanan says, would be "to hide, or if they're in transit to someplace else...
During my morning commute, I read "How We Got Homeland Security Wrong," about how the government allocates funds to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks [March 29]. After I walked through Grand Central Station, I entered New York City's crowded transit system and rode past the site of the World Trade Center and the Federal Reserve building, finally arriving at my job in the city's financial district. So I was amazed to read that the government has allotted $61 a person to make the prairies of Wyoming safe from terrorists and less than $25 for each New Yorker...