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...Mies is back, in a big retrospective that opens this week at two New York City museums. "Mies in Berlin," at the Museum of Modern Art, covers the years when he and other European Modernist pioneers, especially Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, slashed away at the history of architecture until they arrived at Platonic refinements of geometric form. "Mies in America," at the Whitney Museum of American Art, picks up the story after he fled the Nazis, eventually to settle in Chicago as head of what became the Illinois Institute of Technology. From there, through his teaching and his flourishing...
...creative director, Scott Fellows, has something most designers don't: a Harvard M.B.A. (He also attended the Fashion Institute of Technology.) He and his thirtysomething former Harvard roommate, Abel Halpern, who is a managing director at Texas Pacific, have added all the right ingredients: a minimalist new store in Berlin and one on its way in Los Angeles (appositely opposite Gucci and Prada, which started this whole thing), editorial wooing and an edgy ad campaign. Oh, yes, and clothes. The Milan runway show in March drew accolades. Don't be surprised if your teenager starts haranguing...
...high-tech heartland. Almost by accident, he saw a newspaper photo of a German computer executive wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan, "Are you Indian?" Intrigued, he visited the company's website and saw that it was looking for programmers. Today Ajjampur, 25, is working at the Berlin Internet firm Datango - the company that advertised on the T-shirt. "I never expected this to happen," he says, gesturing to the surrounding high-rises of the East Berlin skyline...
...revenue needed to upgrade their armed forces. On missile defense, the Europeans are yet to be convinced, though Rumsfeld, by all accounts, gave it his best shot in Brussels. As for the enlargement of NATO to include nations formerly part of the Soviet Union, Paris, London and Berlin see little to be gained from needlessly antagonizing Russia...
...many comix artists have turned into epic-makers it may be a trend. Several weeks ago TIME.comix reviewed the first volume (out of twelve) of an adaptation of Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." Before that, Jason Lutes' first of three volumes on Weimar Berlin ("Berlin: City of Stones") made our best-of-2000 list. Now add to that the first of a seven-volume retelling of western civilization's original epic, the fall of Troy, in Eric Shanower's "Age of Bronze...