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Paris in autumn can be damp and gray, with plunging temperatures that make sidewalk cafés and long walks along the Seine less than romantic. Luckily, the city has a tradition of outfoxing the fall gloom with the indoor dazzle of its museums, galleries and exhibition halls. This fall's lineup is exceptionally eclectic. In addition to the blockbuster Matisse and Picasso show at the Grand Palais and the big Max Beckmann retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, the season's new shows include Old Masters, guitar gods and great photographers. At the Musée d'Orsay, Manet/Vel...
...three people who by law were supposed to run Sabena: the chairman of its board, its chief executive officer and the government minister who controlled the Belgian state's majority shareholding. In the end, not even that agreement could make a difference. Sabena was going down. Sitting in a café in downtown Brussels, a former Sabena baggage handler named Giacomo Riolo talks with two colleagues about who's to blame for the debacle. Forty-three years old and a father of three, Riolo lost his job a year ago and is still unemployed. His friends are equally disgusted...
...repetition." Hadid's extraordinary designs are now on order in Barcelona (the Arts Plaza in the city center); Leipzig (a car plant); another German city, Wolfsburg (a science center); Rome (a museum of modern art); Salerno, Italy (a ferry terminal); Cincinnati, Ohio (an arts center); Innsbruck, Austria (a café-topped ski jump, which opened last month); Abu Dhabi (a sinuous bridge); and, biggest of all, Singapore, where her team drew up the master plan for a high-tech city on a 200-hectare site, a sort of Singapore Silicon Valley scheduled to take 20 years and something like...
COFFEE BREAK The Starbucks bug has bitten Shanghai, but head instead to the Old China Hand Reading Room, a pleasant library cum caféopened by a local photographer. Try the java with slices of thick buttered toast or go local and sip fragrant rose-bud tea. 27 Shaoxing Road, near Ruijin Er Road...
...country's most-imported species. Russians bought over ?700 million in July, compared to $573 million in U.S. currency. Drop The Gameboy! Even though two judges found it unconstitutional, Greek authorities continued enforcing a law that makes it illegal to play computer games in public. Raiding Internet cafés, arresting their owners and seizing computers, police caused havoc around the country. Share And Share Alike The Bank of Japan jolted markets by agreeing to buy shares owned by the country's commercial banks, which hold $200 billion in stocks and strain under $355 billion in bad loans. This...