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...performances, by conductor Roland Bader and the Krakow Philharmonic and the inestimable Kronos Quartet, are excellent. And for those looking to recapture the magic of Symphony No. 3, the delicious trio of miniatures, In the Old Style, is just the ticket at a tenth the length...
...country's most alluring tourist attractions: a remote railway depot on the northern island of Hokkaido called Koufuku Eki, or Happiness Station. There, travelers whose feet had strayed from the path to contentment could set themselves aright by reaching into their pockets, plunking down $2.10 and buying, literally, "a ticket to Happiness...
While Clinton is a night owl, Gore goes to bed before Nightline and risesearly. Communications director Mark Gearan, who oversaw the vice- presidential selection process, said Gore's face went into free fall when Gearan told him that his meeting with then Governor Clinton about joining the ticket would begin at the Capital Hilton at 11:30 p.m., a good hour after Gore's bedtime. The Vice President says he has persuaded Clinton "to get more sleep...
...quite there yet. A somewhat recast, restaged and even rewritten version started previews last week at Washington's Kennedy Center, to standing ovations, but will not arrive on Broadway until late November. There it faces a tough fight. Ticket buyers may balk at the $100 top price for the two shows. Critics may stress the unsubtle, almost cartoonish nature of some of the characters and acting, rather than focus on the mounting and ultimately overwhelming power of the narrative. Even if everyone lauds the show, it may share the fate of the 1990 Tony Award-winning adaptation of The Grapes...
Everyone can get into the fraud game. Doctors and lawyers often work in tandem to alter medical records, fake injury reports and file claims for services never rendered. At hospitals, billing clerks discreetly boost the prices of low-ticket items, charging, say, $4.15 for an aspirin that costs 11 cents. "A lot of the billing frauds seem insignificant," says Ed Lueckenhoff, chief of the FBI's health-care-fraud unit. "But if you multiply that times thousands, it adds up to a lot of money. And this is a systematic scheme that is taking place with thousands of patients...