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In June he went to the consulate in Berlin for a work visa for the Met job and was forced, he said, to stand for hours in a stifling room with 50 other visa applicants. When he finally reached the consular official, "He said to me, 'Why don't you laugh?' " Mr. Stein recounted. "I said, 'I stay here for two and a half hours standing and I am an old man.' "...
"For lots of musicians, synthesizers are so last decade. In their place, laptops -- especially MacBooks, with their glowing white Apples -- have displaced them as cornucopias of timbre and texture."...
"As the first play penned by a woman opens at Shakespeare's Globe today - breaking a 411-year tradition - top theatre directors report a surge in prominent female playwrights, with a wave of talented women coming to the fore in Britain's male-dominated theatres."...
"Google Inc., which is developing a digital music service, is finding a warm welcome at record companies that are hoping the technology company can loosen Apple Inc.'s grip on the digital music market with its iTunes music store."...
"Daytona State College thinks it has the answer: eliminate the used-book and rental markets on campus and have all students buy e-books. By doing so, the college could save its students as much as 80 percent on course materials."...
"History has yet to settle the verdict on this brilliant photographer whose work laid the foundation for motion pictures. Even in this belated moment of triumph, Eadweard Muybridge's authorship is yet again being called into question for the third time since his series of landmark achievements."...
What is it about music that gets true believers so hot and bothered? "Music is almost as dangerous as gunpowder; and it may be requires looking after no less than the press, or the mint."...
"They were confined in March and April to Ulster Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison 94 miles north of Sotheby's York Avenue salesroom in New York. Doyle, now 53, had pleaded guilty to grand larceny related to the sale of a bronze Degas sculpture. Haggerty, 55, was convicted of vehicular assault, after a drunk-driving incident that caused serious injuries to two victims."...
"As industry heavyweights, such as Time Warner and Disney, push ever more-expensive packages of their cable programming, the smaller networks will lose leverage to negotiate their own deals. As a result, they could see less favorable deals or risk being dropped altogether."...
"Television technology is poised for another sea change, and when that happens, a curtain drops between generations, thick and impenetrable. Those growing up on one side of the curtain, the one represented by the new technology, cannot move backward into the previous technology any more than a person who discovers double-stuffed Oreos can ever go back to eating single-stuffed."...