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By commissioning "The First Emperor," the Met is giving a Chinese-born shaman composer-conductor a central role in the future of the institution.
''INTRIGUE: 9,'' Rufus Albemarle said on Tuesday evening, as he surveyed and rated a room full of elegant strangers who were suavely disporting themselves at nosebleed altitude 79 floors above New York. ''DĂ©cor: 7,'' he added. ''But compared to what?''
Four years after he won City Hall as a novice politician, Michael R. Bloomberg is far outpacing his record-breaking spending in that race, and is well into a far more sophisticated second campaign for mayor -- one that uses a multimillion-dollar vote-getting machine that mimics many of the techniques used by the 2004 Bush presidential campaign. Behind the re-election drive is the most comprehensive database of information about New Yorkers -- their income levels, occupations, religious faith and interests -- collected by a mayoral campaign, devised to help Mr. Bloomberg's team tailor messages to specific voters based on their profiles.
AS a rule, companies don't often draw attention to business practices that could land their executives in jail. But for PartyGaming PLC, potential illegalities aren't just a secret hidden in its business plan -- they are the centerpiece of its business plan. A giant in the online gambling business, PartyGaming is an often-overlooked megasurvivor from the dot-com crash of the late 1990's. As hundreds of profitless commercial sites disappeared into the digital ether, PartyGaming's popular gambling sites -- like PartyPoker.com -- soared, with revenues and profits growing exponentially year after year.
Before Annika Sorenstam could walk away from a third day of disobedient golf shots, she was spotted by a patron in the clubhouse balcony who tried to get her attention. ''What's the best birdie hole?'' he yelled. Sorenstam looked up at him, allowed the question to dangle, and decided not to answer it.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 22, 2005, covering June 26, 2005.
Coldplay
The Black Eyed Peas
The White Stripes
Shakira
Mariah Carey
2005Princess Alexia of the Netherlands[â ]
Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau is the second daughter of King Willem-Alexander and Queen MĂĄxima. Princess Alexia is a member of the Dutch royal house and second in the line of succession to the Dutch throne.
2005TĂ”nno Lepmets, Estonian basketball player (born 1938)[â ]
TÔnno Lepmets was an Estonian professional basketball player, who competed for the Soviet Union. He won gold with the Soviet basketball team at the 1963 and 1967 EuroBasket. Elected to the Hall of fame of Estonian basketball in 2010. He was he long-time center of Estonian national team.
2005Richard Whiteley, English journalist and game show host (born 1943)[â ]
John Richard Whiteley was an English presenter and journalist, best known for his twenty-three years as host of the game show Countdown. Countdown was the launch programme for Channel 4 at 4:45 pm on 2 November 1982, and Whiteley was the first person to be seen on the channel. Whiteley enjoyed projecting the image of an absent-minded eccentric. His trademarks were his jolly, avuncular manner, his fondness for puns, and his bold, sometimes garish wardrobe.
In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[â ]