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Last season’s opening-night attraction was Mary Zimmerman’s new production of “Lucia di Lammermoor,” whose combination of fantasy and verisimilitude delighted the daring but left traditionalists unmoved. Diana Damrau (who could definitely give 2007’s Lucia, Natalie Dessay, a run for her money) takes the title role . . .
The European Union is divided about whether a bailout plan for European banks is needed. France allegedly proposed such an idea, but Germany isn't biting. Meanwhile, more and more banks are parking their money at the European Central Bank.
IF YOU'VE STARTED a new job in the past couple of years, your 401(k) plan may be quietly subjecting you to a profound social experiment. Instead of choosing to sign up for the plan, there's a good chance you have been automatically enrolled - so while it used to take a conscious decision to save money for retirement, it now ...
A LITTLE OVER a week ago, a federal jury convicted three leaders of Care International, a defunct Boston-based Islamic charity, of tax fraud. The decision was hailed by prosecutors as the latest victory in the fight against Islamic terrorists, one more blow to their ability to raise the money that sustains their operations. Just last week, the Justice Department announced ...
The life of Leona Helmsley presents an object lesson in the truism that money does not buy happiness. Born in 1920, she overcame a hardscrabble youth in Brooklyn to become a successful condominium broker in Manhattan, eventually alighting, in the nineteen-sixties, at a firm owned by Harry B. Helmsley . . .
LOS ANGELES--It would seem that measures promoting renewable energy and alternative fuels would be shoo-ins here where gas prices are among the nation's highest. Two thirds of Californians polled say they want their state to be a leader in advancing technologies that reduce pollution and combat climate change.