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From his vantage point overlooking the hit-and-run militia battles in the streets below, Waite shouted an apt observation last week from an open window. When a television reporter called up to him, "What do you plan to do now?" Waite replied, "Take cover. This seems to be normal life in Beirut." Indeed it was, and so was the problem of the kidnapings to which Waite had so boldly addressed himself. --By William E. Smith. Reported by Dean Fischer/Cairo and Erik Amfitheatrof/Malta
...match of developer and designer is apt. Jahn's work tends to be glossy, imposing and a little martial, the architectural equivalent of Wagner played on a synthesizer at full blast. He is the Donald Trump of his field, a showman enthralled by sheer size. "We are doing the tallest building in Houston," says Jahn, "the tallest building in Philadelphia, the tallest building in Europe." He arrived from West Germany 19 years ago, at age 26; at 33 he was partner and design director of C.F. Murphy Associates in Chicago; at 43 he was owner and chief executive officer...
CURTIS Well, we're all limited in what we can do. You don't ask Bono to write an opera on the subject of something political, and as I was trying to address a passion of mine, it seemed apt that I should do it in the kind of way that I'd written films before. If I'd tried to write a serious political drama, I wouldn't have known where to begin. So I tried to write about politics from the point of view of a normal person...
...visit China in nearly a quarter of a century ... Probably never before in history has a sport been used so effectively as a tool of international diplomacy. With its premium on delicate skill and its onomatopoeic name implying an interplay of initiative and response, Ping Pong was an apt metaphor for the relations between Washington and Peking. "I was quite a Ping Pong player in my days at law school," President Nixon told his aides last week. "I might say I was fairly good at it." --TIME, April...
...suggesting that Bush is a menacing Sith monster like his movie counterpart, the Chancellor, is revealed to be. The movie itself is. (Though maybe Dick Cheney is more apt for the part...