The nips, tucks and revisions still result in a warm and thoughtful embrace of everything from the introductory 3-D flight of Santa to New York (special glasses are provided, attached to the program) to the truncated "Nutcracker" and a reimagined "New York at Christmas," which puts the Rockettes in snowy white (with touches of red and green) aboard a double-decker sightseeing bus.
Among the enhancements attached to the program, visitors to the PBS Web site, www.pbs.org, can experience a three-dimensional rendering of the Parthenon, an accompanying book by Paul Cartledge, a Cambridge professor of classics who is one of the on-camera academics.
There were no social services attached to the program to help the homeless get off the streets.
One participant felt "the social value attached to the program (NACP) can only be given by the public sector".
In one indication of the importance Mr. Giuliani attaches to the program, he will join Mr. Levy today at Public School 48 in Washington Heights to inaugurate the program.
And, while he gives Bush credit for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a five-year fifteen-billion-dollar plan that was introduced in 2003 (despite the reservations he has about the anti-condom and pro-abstinence message that the right wing insisted on attaching to the program), he is quick to give himself, and his White House, a mulligan.
You refer to "strings attached" to the DMI program, but these are simply safeguards to prevent self-dealing and other abuses.
In terms of finances there are costs attached to the development of the program, the purchase of a domain name and airing the website where the questionnaires could be completed.
Commissioned a captain in 1942 (he was thirty-seven), he was attached to the budding B-29 program in Fort Worth, and accompanied it during its seventeen months of difficult preliminary practices and long-range skirmishings in India, Burma, and China.
Attached to the exhibition are several educational programs for the public.
