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Auditioning for the New York Philharmonic must have been like trying out for the New York Yankees. It was. Fortunately, I was so young, it didn't psych me out. You just...
...think the classical-music world has changed since you started? Is it still healthy? I'd say there's a very stable audience base. We see it week after week. In great cities like New York, there's an audience for almost any type of art. In fact, I think it's grown to an extent, though of course it will never have the audience that you get for rock 'n' roll...
...trial that started on June 15 in U.S. District Court in New York, AIG contends that the shares as well as over $4 billion in profits that Starr International has reaped from past AIG stock sales were meant to fund a long-standing deferred-compensation program for AIG employees - a program that Greenberg, 84, halted after his acrimonious ouster from AIG amid an accounting scandal...
Negotiating a solution - among members of Congress and the nations of the world - won't be simple, but as the environmental author Bill McKibben wrote in a June 11 review in the New York Review of Books, that might be the easy part: "The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain." Facts are facts...
...Bourdain's world. Bourdain is no Julia Child or Hervé This - he's not a culinary innovator - but in 2000 he changed forever the way we think about food with the publication of Kitchen Confidential, his scabrous, astoundingly funny, weirdly touching tell-all about his career in New York City restaurant kitchens. It's not just that he told us not to order fish on a Monday (because it's probably been around since last Thursday) and that the bread on our table probably got recycled from the table of somebody else who maybe sneezed on it. He changed...