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...Blair made clear to the Commons that the speed of the drawdown would be determined by ongoing assessments of the security situation. Certainly, he knows that he won't be there to oversee the final departure of British forces from Iraq. The former Europe Minister Denis MacShane, leaving the chamber at the end of the question-and-answer session, welcomed "the reduction of British troops in Iraq" and "a mission partly accomplished in Basra," but suggested that aspects of the insurgency in the country could never be appeased. Moreover he foresees a need for fresh commitments by Britain and other...
...Alaskan natives-the message being that traditional crafts have as much cultural importance as fine art. But it's the museum's most innovative display that best captures the region. The Place Where You Go to Listen, the vision of Fairbanks artist John Luther Adams, is a computerized chamber that translates into light and synthesized sounds the cycles of the Alaskan wilderness-seismic activity, moon phases, positions of the sun, and so on. Data on these is gathered from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and streamed live to the auditorium, sparking off an audiovisual show of cosmic intensity...
When the New Orleans City Council chamber is packed with a standing room-only crowd of citizens who have taken an afternoon off to sit in on a four-hour session - in the middle of Mardi Gras season, no less - you know it's no ordinary meeting. And indeed, this week's hearing of the council's criminal justice committee was, as a Times-Picayune reporter aptly put it, more like a visit to the principal's office for the city's two leading crime fighters...
...Boston area. Those in four of the hotels were told that their work—cleaning rooms for nearly eight hours a day—was beneficial to their health. Women at the remaining three hotels were told nothing. “In looking at a population like the chamber maids, you think, ‘here’s this group of people physically working hard all day long, but many of whom don’t know the benefits of their work and are just not healthy,’” said Langer. Langer found that...
...legal war with her other stepson, E. Pierce Marshall over the $1.6 billion estate. That battle, however, ensures that not all of Anna Nicole's story will be told in tabloid form. A year ago, the aggrieved widow, dressed in black, her blonde curls tamed, appeared inside the hallowed chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court. What followed was a unanimous decision authored by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg that gave new life to Anna Nicole's quest to inherit her late husband's fortune...