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...claimed that it had no control over a parish school where a teacher molested a student. But attorney Weil showed that the diocese controlled not only curriculum and teacher appointments but also scheduling for the school conference rooms. The church settled before the case went to trial. "This is akin to a private getting caught and the general saying, 'He doesn't work for me,'" says Weil. "They're all wearing the same uniform...
DIED. NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE, 71, French-born model and self-taught artist best known for her colorful papier-mache sculptures of huge, voluptuous women, called nanas, a French term akin to "broad"; after battling emphysema and asthma; in La Jolla, Calif. A member, with Christo, of the Nouveaux Realistes, she first won fame in the early 1960s for her "shooting" pieces, for which she would fire a gun at her sculptures and paintings in galleries. Among her most famous installations is the Tarot Garden--a park in Garavicchio, Italy, featuring 22 monumental pieces inspired by tarot card characters...
...songs as “Let’s Build a Stairway to Paradise” or “Racing with the Moon.” The fox-trot, interspersed with waltzes, rhumbas, sambas, and jitterbug, was the popular rhythm. In those days, knowing how to dance was akin to knowing how to brush your teeth: you had been doing it regularly since you got your twelve-year-old molars...
...plenty of money to be made from selling raw MP3s and unlimited CD-burning privileges. But with major media companies so wedded to the old ways of selling music--nearly 40% of Vivendi's operating income flows from its media business--allowing users to burn from their catalog seems akin to dragging a large wooden horse into their boardroom...
...biography is in many ways akin to a marriage, its success depending on what each person brings to the mix, in the compatibility or lack thereof between author and subject. Not since Bob Woodward's misbegotten attempt to tell the story of John Belushi in Wired has a biographer been so ill suited to write the life of a creative artist as Daniels is to write about Lester Young. When it comes to illuminating the background, he can be fitfully incisive, but when it comes to telling the story of one of jazz's most protean geniuses (which is, after...