Word: 17th
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...arson. On Saturday, Santa Barbara was declared a federal disaster area. Fifteen years of daily notes and books half written, of statues and photos and memories, were gone. My only solace came from the final irony. In the manuscript I had saved, I had quoted the poem of the 17th century Japanese wanderer Basho, describing how destruction can sometimes bring a kind of clarity...
Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa talked with TIME senior editor George Russell and Ottawa bureau chief James Graff in Bourassa's 17th-floor offices in Montreal's Quebec Hydro building. Excerpts...
...overseers' diversity comes at a high cost, however. Originally founded in the 17th century as a group of ministers that was supposed to make sure the Corporation toed the Puritan party line, the Board now has little power and meets only five times a year. Things have been more exciting recently, however, as a pro-divestment alumni group, the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid, has elected several dissident members to the Board, including Tutu...
Before making his fateful decision to sink $1 billion into the bejeweled Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, Donald Trump should have done his homework on the ill fortune that befell the builder of the original Taj. The cost of constructing the 17th century Indian marvel, which took 20,000 laborers 22 years to complete, eventually exhausted the royal treasury of the Shahjahan and triggered the decline of the Mogul Empire. Nearly 350 years later, the Taj's modern namesake may have unleashed the grandiose downfall of Manhattan's self-styled King of the Deal...
...since given way to appliance stores and garages, but the artistic oases of the Left Bank have remained hospitable. Montparnasse reached its height during the 1920s, when Hemingway used to sit and write stories in the Closerie des Lilas, which had been a lilac-shaded country tavern during the 17th century. Hemingway complained bitterly when the management tried to attract a younger clientele by tarting up the bar and ordering all the waiters to shave off their mustaches. The Closerie is once again cozily moribund, and Hemingway, like the friendly red lampshades, has become part of the decor: a brass...