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...Gehry also unveiled his model for yet another Guggenheim, this one in lower Manhattan, adjacent to the Brooklyn Bridge. Whether it gets built will depend on Guggenheim director Thomas Krens' ability to persuade enough people that New York City, which has a Guggenheim annex in SoHo, needs a third branch. Gehry's design will also have to overcome critics who say it will dominate the Manhattan skyline, which takes some doing, but a building by Gehry could...
...million main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, which opened in 1996, was meant to become a literary monument. In contrast to its predecessor, sometimes called "a urinal with books," the new building is architecturally immaculate: The gleaming white-tiled facade is both dignified and contemporary, while inside, a white atrium rises to a huge round skylight that fills the building with light...
Michael Caddell, the Branch Davidians' lead lawyer in the wrongful-death suit against the government that kicked off in court Tuesday, doesn't have any conspiracy theories. He isn't going to put the system on trial. He just wants to prove that the U.S. government - specifically, the two FBI field generals that led the 1993 raid on the Waco compound - made "bad decisions," and that people died from them. Here's a rundown on the showdown...
...defense: The government scored a big procedural victory Monday when it was allowed to introduce transcripts of Branch Davidian conversations intercepted by FBI listening devices during the siege. In the transcripts - prepared by a government expert, conspiracy buffs will note - Branch Davidian leaders joke about their compound's lack of accessibility to the fire department, and David Koresh muses drily about an FBI agent's head exploding. Such are not the linchpins of an excessive-force case. Government lawyers are already on Judge Walter S. Smith's bad side for procedural hijinks in the trial's runup. They'll have...
...down case has already irked the militia types - in conspiracy theory, there are no mistakes - and a guilty verdict will only whet their appetites further. Exoneration would do little to repair the Justice Department's damaged reputation. Afterward, the town of Waco will still be infamous, and wishing the Branch Davidians had picked someplace in Montana to make their stand. And no matter how hard Caddell and the Davidians try to turn a tragedy into a crime, the dead will still be dead, and men like David Koresh will still be just as responsible for that as any FBI agent...