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...Richard Attenborough lost his 14-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, in Phuket. Attenborough's daughter, Jane Holland, 49, and her mother-in-law are missing. So is British fashion photographer Simon Atlee, 33, who was on vacation in Phuket with his girlfriend, Czech model Petra Nemcova, 25. Nemcova suffered a broken pelvis, but survived by clinging to a palm tree and floating in the water amid bodies and debris for eight hours. Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl watched the tsunami from the third-floor balcony of his hotel room in Thalpe, Sri Lanka. "I recalled images from the war, which...
Sculptural would be a good way to describe Gehry's work too. If all goes as planned, ground will be broken next year in lower Manhattan for what will be by far the tallest building of his long career, a residential tower rising as much as 800 ft. (about 75 stories). Though the design is still incomplete, Gehry expects it will feature some vertical adaptation of his trademark curves and arabesques. Not too many years ago, those features would have given pause to the structural engineers assigned to make sure buildings stand up even when they rise along irregular lines...
...true motive seems to be that it can, just maybe, get more money from Harvard. If this is the case, the agreement is ridiculous. Should Harvard be able to arbitrarily demand renegotiation of the agreement when it thinks it might get less? We can only imagine the uproar about broken promises and bad faith that would ensue if Harvard cynically tried to renege on a bargain. Cambridge should have enough self-respect to hold itself to a similar standard...
Standing inside Mule Creek, Schwarzenegger declared the state's entire prison system "broken." He lashed out at the wall of silence that he said prevented guards from speaking out about abuses committed by their co-workers. "We won't stop until we tear down the whole wall and see it on the ground in a pile of rubble," he said...
Scorsese is not past his prime. As recently as 1999 he crafted a masterpiece—Bringing Out the Dead. That film took audiences through hell, showing audiences the world through a broken emotionally drained ambulance driver. It was filled with passion and fire—it had sense of immediacy...