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...with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov on this issue since January, when she flew to Moscow to tell him--during an intermission of La Traviata at the Bolshoi Theater--that NATO was issuing a bombing threat. Four weeks ago, they met in a bare, beige room at the Oslo airport, where Ivanov plucked a silk flower from the table arrangement to give her. He also pulled from his breast pocket a paper with 10 "principles" for a solution. Albright noticed some coincided with NATO's. She proposed that they get out pencils and mark the ones they could agree...
...like to see those training sessions. Could it be that the ticket line is routed through an opening that measures fanny width in the way those templates that some airlines put on airport X-ray machines weed out carry-on bags that won't fit under the seat or in the overhead rack? Probably not. It's more likely that ticket takers are trained to eyeball patrons from the rear, in a swift and nonthreatening manner, and give the extra-large-approaching signal (maybe a quick puffing out of the cheeks) to an usher, who then asks, with a helpful...
ATLANTIC JOURNEY Jane Goldman At Logan International Airport...
Every Harvard student goes to Logan at some time during their college career, but now the airport offers something more interesting than biographies of Princess Diana. The Massport Authority has just completed a $1 billion modernization project, including a new elevated walkway between the terminals. The walkway is decorated with an extensive public art project called Atlantic Journey, created by Somerville artist and country singer Jane Goldman. It is the largest public art installation in New England and aims to beautify the airport while evoking "Boston." The project, set in the floor of the walkway between two moving sidewalks, depicts...
Goldman had several motivations for her design. She thought that airport public art should be calming and relaxing, since air travel is stressful for many people, and they don't need to have their nerves jarred by confrontational or unpleasant art. In addition, she thought that it should be acessible to as many people as possible, and also communicate something about the city it is located in-- "a sense of place so that the Logan experience feels uniquely like Boston, as opposed to, say Phoenix," she mused. The nautical theme does all of this well--it reflects the ocean that...