SANTA FE, N.M. -- The music is brooding, pregnant with feelings left unspoken. Clouds of sound swirl in the orchestra pit, pierced with shafts of light from a solo flute or the touch of a bell. Kaija Saariaho, the Finnish composer, knows how to write for an orchestra.
A Central Valley pastor is on trial in the death of a man who left money for a farming museum. It's not uncommon in farm country to come across old-timers with a passion for preserving the implements of their trade. These are the folks who convert wooden wagon wheels into patio furniture and vintage tractors into mailbox stands or geranium planters.
It has been a year since Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones chase started, and DJ's integration within the News Corp machinery continues. Variety does an in-depth on a year after, and concludes that even though Wall Street has gone negative on News Corp stock as a result, at the very least, he hasn't unleashed a massive series of cutbacks that have plagued the rest of the industry. We may know some more
It has been a year since Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones chase started, and DJ's integration within the News Corp machinery continues. Variety does an in-depth on a year after, and concludes that even though Wall Street has gone negative on News Corp stock as a result, at the very least, he hasn't unleashed a massive series of cutbacks that have plagued the rest of the industry.
Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks declined for a second day, led by automakers and commodity producers, after Nissan Motor Co. and Olympus Corp. posted lower earnings and metal prices retreated.
If Beijing has a sister city for weather, it would have to be Houston. On Sunday in Beijing, it was August in Houston. Sweat was trickling down my body as I stood smack dab between the two most distinctive structures yet created in the 21st century. From a
Anne Marie Ambrose had little more than a month to settle into her new post as head of the city's troubled Department of Human Services when the first crisis hit.
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