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DIED. WILLIAM ROTH JR., 82, former Republican Senator of Delaware from 1971 to 2001 best known as the architect of a popular tax-sheltered retirement account; of heart failure; in Washington. A budget watchdog who once discovered that the Defense Department was paying $9,600 for a wrench and $640 for a toilet seat, he co-sponsored the 1981 Kemp-Roth tax cuts that became a centerpiece of Reaganomics. His Roth IRA first became available in 1998, allowing people to make tax-free withdrawals for retirement, education or first-time home purchases...
...others for its bowl-winning football team and not a few for its girl-to-guy ratio. But Amanda Botway decided on Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology when she saw the dorm she would live in. Outside, the $28 million State Street Village residence hall, designed by renowned architect Helmut Jahn, is constructed of corrugated, stainless-steel panels and walls of tinted glass. Inside, a glass elevator glides from pristine courtyards to a fifth-floor penthouse, where there's a sleek lounge with leather sofas and a 50-in. plasma TV. Botway's 250sq.ft. corner room has floor...
While Olivia is dryly funny, the timely Mosque, by trained architect David Macaulay, is smartly informative and probably best for those over 8. With beautifully rendered drawings, Macaulay tells the fictional story of the building of a 16th century mosque. The complex diagrams offer architectural insights that even parents will appreciate...
...first eight mins., Siodmak and Schoenfeld efficiently construct a gallows due for our rancorous architect hero, Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis). The pickup, the revue they attend, the four people who noticed them - the bartender, the cab driver, the Carmen Miranda-style star of the show and her hepped-up drummer - are sharply sketched, with lots of oblique camera angles and warning shadows. The men waiting for Scott when he arrives home don?t bother to introduce themselves; are they thugs, or unknown suitors for Mrs. H.? They are detectives of the brutish sort Woolrich often painted: the menacing fatso (Thomas...
ENGAGED. LINDA TRIPP, 52, former Pentagon employee who blew the whistle on President Bill Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; to her childhood sweetheart, architect Dieter Rousch. Tripp, who is divorced, recently won $595,000 in a lawsuit against the Defense Department for releasing confidential personal information about her to the New Yorker...