Cipolla

"It's truly a renaissance on the West Side," Mr. Cipolla said.

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This new pier will help start to even things out, Mr. Cipolla added.

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"The stakes are too high for it to be year to year," Mr. Cipolla said, "so we'd like to see a much more permanent arrangement established."

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Juan Martin del Potro, the 2009 U.S. Open champion, downed Flavio Cipolla of Italy 6-1, 6-4, 6-3.

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But Mr. Cipolla, 55 years old, denied that the lights could go out in 2012.

Funding Flickers For 9/11 Lights

The goal is to establish an endowment capable of supporting the lights, which cost up to $500,000 each year, according to MAS President Vin Cipolla .

Funding Flickers For 9/11 Lights

Father Cipolla is the chair of the classics department at Brunswick School in Greenwich, Conn., and a parochial vicar at St. Mary's Church in Norwalk, Conn.

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Vin Cipolla , president of the urban-planning group the Municipal Arts Society of New York, said the city would be better served starting off fresh rather than adding hundreds of pages of regulations every decade.

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Tribute in Light is currently supported by a $400,000 grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., which Mr. Cipolla said his organization hopes to extend again for another two-year term.

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The 24th-seeded Argentine led Cipolla 6-1, 1-3 when rain suspended play on Monday, then won 11 of the 15 games played Tuesday.

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