Saying yes begins things.
The road to creating YES began when the Yankees and the Nets merged in 1999, but it gained ground last year when the Yankees and the International Management Group proposed creating a network that was valued as high as $2.4 billion.
The answer, a resounding yes, begins at 7 30 Wednesday when Mr. La Selva will conduct the New York Grand Opera, Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra in "Manon Lescaut," to open a free, fully staged three-opera all-Puccini festival at Summerstage, at Rumsey Playfield, midpark at 72nd Street in Central Park.
So yes, "Begin Again" allowed the 29-year-old a few more hours of shut-eye a night.
The second year into my second marriage, the weight gain that typically settles from matrimonial meals had, yes, begun to set in.
What was billed as the Bach Collegium Japan's first major UK residency was a compact, intense 26 hours of, yes, Bach, beginning on Friday night with the B minor Mass and ending the following evening with the Magnificat.
When the jury forewoman read "not guilty" five times in a row for Mr. Combs, Mr. Brafman shouted, "Yes, yes," then began weeping and covered his face with shaking hands in the packed courtroom.
In October the BMX front line (yes, sorry) began to gel.
(And yes, I began this rude habit even before I bookmarked the indispensable Devils blog In Lou We Trust).
