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...planned government headquarters?4 hectares reclaimed from what was once HMS Tamar, a British Royal Navy base?will adjoin 18 hectares of Central waterfront now being filled in. Two other major harborfront sites?40 hectares in West Kowloon slated for a cultural center and the former Kai Tak airport?are now in planning stages. "These are three very important pieces in the jigsaw of the city," says Bosco Fung, Hong Kong's Director of Planning. "Once finished with these three, we will have a complete picture of the metro area." Hong Kong could yet have a waterfront to rival those...
...plagued by stormy arguments between its builders, British Aircraft Corp. and France's Sud-Aviation. The partners have been forced to plan major structural changes and to push back delivery. London Aug. 26, 1957 When, Althea [Gibson] left for Wimbledon in May, only three close friends were at the airport to wish her luck. When she returned [as the first black player to win Wimbledon], Idlewild was awash with people. Countless acquaintances suddenly remembered how they had helped her, and crowded close to share her success. The city, which had offered Althea's parents a cramped flat in which...
DIED. Luis Jimenez, 65, who with his towering fiberglass sculptures of illegal immigrants, fiesta dancers and ruddy cowboys became one of the most important artists to depict Latino culture; after a piece of a 32-ft.-tall sculpture he was crafting for Denver International Airport fell as it was being transported, crushing him; in Hondo, N.M. The Chicano artist celebrated working life in energetic pieces like Man on Fire--based on the Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc, executed by Spanish colonists for his resistance--which is now in the Smithsonian's National Museum...
Earlier this month, a group of students met in Washington to bash George W. Bush, debate the power of multinational corporations and hear a speaker who denounced the Iraq war, the Patriot Act and stricter airport security. A leader of these college kids calls them "the new counterculture," but here's the thing: they aren't liberals. The 185 students were in Washington to attend the 26th annual National Conservative Student Conference...
Just 25 minutes before he was scheduled to address the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2006 at its Class Day ceremony yesterday, Henry M. Paulson, President George W. Bush’s nominee for the next secretary of the Treasury, touched down at Logan Airport. The Business School, which had hatched several back-up plans in case the erratic Boston weather did not cooperate, printed out 1,000 revised Class Day programs and found a substitute speaker...