Word: barriere
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...their storefront windows as an equally inviolate divider, cleaving the cool, exclusionary aesthetic of their boutiques from the rowdy street fashion of the teens preening outside. But enter Naoki Takizawa's sleek, stark space in Tokyo's fashionable Roppongi Hills neighborhood and the soaring glass wall seems less a barrier than an instrument for osmosis. Among his latest designs for haute-couture label Issey Miyake?fanciful blouses and blazers inspired by the flourishes of baroque furniture?mingle a more prosaic product: Takizawa's imaginative take on Lee jeans and Champion sweatshirts. "For too long, fashion was something people could look...
...Buoyed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's successful trip to the U.S., the Israeli government ordered the building of 22 homes in a settlement in the Gaza Strip, pushed through a law denying citizenship to Palestinians who marry Israelis and completed the first phase of a $1 billion security barrier that critics say will turn the West Bank into a vast prison. Sharon completed his visit to the U.S. without reprimand for constructing the barrier. U.S. President George W. Bush expressed concern, but dropped the politically loaded term wall in favor of the Israelis' preference: fence...
Especially after Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas joined the court, giving him two firm allies, Rehnquist spearheaded a determined effort to stem--and roll back--the liberal advances made by the Warren and Burger courts. In many ways it worked. Affirmative action is more difficult to implement now. The barrier between church and state is more porous. Convicted criminals have a much harder time getting multiple appeals heard in federal courts. But Rehnquist's most enduring legacy is in the less visible but crucial area of federalism--the balance of powers between Washington and the states. The Rehnquist court...
...that "if you're a native speaker and can fog up a mirror, you can teach" English abroad. He projected a cartoon on a screen to show the advantages of being unofficial: a man wearing a turban and dagger halts a standard-issue, briefcase-toting missionary at a striped barrier while another Westerner carrying a toolbox strolls blithely through, toward a mosque in the middle distance...
DIED. LARRY DOBY, 79, Hall of Fame slugger who became the first African American in the American League--just 11 weeks after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier by joining the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers; in Montclair, N.J. In a 13-year career spent mostly with the Cleveland Indians, the star center fielder never lost his cool despite segregated conditions and rejection by some of his teammates. "The Bible ... says you should forgive and forget," he observed in 1999. "Well, you might forgive. But boy, it's tough to forget...