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Ancient Hebrew Poetry (Free subscription) | yesterday
... credere in Dio e fare scienza in modo serio. Come esiste unamolteplicità di creature sulla terra, così potrebbero esserci altri esseri, ancheintelligenti, creati da Dio. Questo non contrasta con la nostra fede, perchénon possiamo porre limiti alla libertà creatrice di Dio. Many astronomers do notmiss an opportunity to make public confession of atheism . . . [but] it's a bitof a myth to hold...
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Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
... every time someone said "Reverend Wright") when she accidentally stumbled upon the glorious Così Fan Tutte. Naturally on Arté, by far Europe's coolest TV channel.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... equity firms active in the consumer sector. Among the public companies presenting are: (NASDAQ:COSI), (NASDAQ:CBRL), (NASDAQ:FGXI), (NYSE:HLF), (NASDAQ:KONA), (NYSE:LBY), (NYSE:LTM), (NYSE:MRT), (NYSE:NUS), (NASDAQ:CHUX), (NYSE:TUP), and (NASDAQ:USNA). The format for the May 20 seminar includes individual company presentations, as well as morning and afternoon breakout sessions with the...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
I was chagrined when I arrived at the Boston Conservatory Theater to see Cosi Fan Tutte on a Saturday night and learned that my tickets were for Friday. The performance was sold out, and we were put on a long waiting list. While I was apologizing profusely to my companion for my "senior moment," a woman nearby displayed two tickets. ...
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Angry Bear (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Cosi made some excellent analysis of the budget implications in the last comment thread, then raised only to drop the issue of motive for privatizers. So I want to try a crack at it here. It is clear to me that most of the people who are pushing privatization are fundamentally opposed to Social Democratic solutions generally. There is a large group of people who never liked the New Deal, continue to...
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What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Here is the interview with Msgr. Guido Marini in the Italian daily Il Giornale in my translation: This is how I gave the Pope a retro make-over ("Così ho rifatto il look stile vintage al Papa") [We can do this in various ways, and what I chose here does not reflect anything of the style of [...]
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The Consumerist (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Gil was stuck in an American Airlines Admiral's Club for 5 hours waiting for his flight back to L.A., so he tried to access the South Park website to help pass the time. What he got instead was the screen here, saying that the site had been blocked because it's considered "tasteless." We've seen the same message at a Cosi restaurant in NYC. Thanks, companies, for protecting our delicate sensibilities!...
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Jack Bog's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
As our election porn series wears on, we've been a little worried lately that people might think our recent comparison of State House candidate Cyreena Boston's campaign flyers to ads for a fictional scent called "Passion" was a sexist remark. For the record, please note that this is a unisex fragrance:...
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www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... preparations before setting sail in the hope of Source: www.timesonline.co.uk Movers roundup: Cosi, Superior Industries - Boston Globe NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Cosi Inc. jumped Friday after the restaurant chain said strong sales and franchise fees helped its first-quarter loss narrow, and an analyst kept a top rating. NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Superior Industries International Source:...
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The Street (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Also gaining, shares of restaurant chain Cosi surged 20% to $2.68. Excluding the effect of discontinued opperations, the Deerfield, Ill., company narrowed its loss to $2.8 million, or 7 cents a share, from $4.1 million, or 10 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter. The Street expected a loss of 8 cents a share. Revenue increased 6.7% year over year to $33.2 million, ahead of the consensus estimate...
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eurocarblog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... accreditata di 22.8 l/100 km nel ciclo cittadino e 14.7 nel misto, si potrà definire umiliata, così come la Lamborghini LP640 (32,3 in città e 21,3 nel misto) e la Ferrari 599 GTB, sulle stesse spaventose cifre della “Murci”. Thanks to “GT-R slave” Via | Motorauthority
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Market Wire - Earnings Reports (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
DEERFIELD, IL (MARKET WIRE) Cosi, Inc. (NASDAQ: COSI), the premium convenience restaurant company, today reported a net loss for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008 of $(3,028,000), or $(0.08) per basic and diluted common share, compared with a net loss of $(4,205,000), or $(0.11) per basic and diluted common share, for the 2007 first quarter. Excluding the effect of discontinued operations...
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Life of a musician-Robin Hill (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
... and a classical guitarist. That's where you are wrong. Back in October last year I wrote a post, 'Cosi Fan Tutte' , go over and have a look, to find out how Billy Connolly, a tea-cosy and a classical guitarist can in fact be linked.
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Opera Today (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
... he returns to the house for Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" and will conduct four performances of "Cosi Fan Tutte" at next summer's Zurich Festival.Welser-Moest will become music director of the Vienna State Opera beginning in the 2010-11 season.
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Planethalder (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Wasn't it a glorious May Bank Holiday weekend? The sun here in London shone and shone and everyone tried to make the most of it by being out in the sunshine and hot air with bare arms and legs. We spent Saturday hopping from one gallery to another courtesy of many black cabs due to my advanced pregnancy: the voluptuous, almost edible paintings of Howard Hodgkin at the Gasgosian in Kings Cross ( above)...
