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...hasn't completed another building in the U.S. until now. On June 22, his Stone Hill Center, a combination of galleries and art-conservation labs, opens at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, the superb small museum and art-study center in Williamstown, Mass. It's exactly what you would expect from him. It's pale, gray, serene, economical, subdued and, from most angles, pretty splendid...
Still, the amateurs seem to have helped boost the event. Although this race used to draw big names like former Olympian Danny Clark and Tour de France workhorse George Hincapie, as well as amateurs, organizers say attendance at this four-corner criterium (a short race course) has suffered in more recent years. To liven things up a bit, Eustice decided to bring two very different cycling cultures together on the same 3/4-mile course along the brownstone-lined streets of Harlem - the pros and the bike messengers. "I almost look at them as the artists colonizing the big race," says Eustice...
...Wesley Clark was the NATO Supreme Commander who led the U.S. war against Serbia in Kosovo in 1999 and failed in his own bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004. He was seen as "Bill Clinton's general," hailing, like Clinton, from Arkansas - he backed Hillary Clinton earlier this year in her bid for the nomination. Many military officers viewed Clark as a political general, which is peculiar: all generals are political; some just hide it better than others...
Californians across the state are voluntarily cutting down on sprinkler use and dealing with curbs on development and high fire hazards. But the farmers around Firebaugh have more to lose. "This is the first time water has ever been rationed like this," says Sarah Clark Woolf, spokeswoman for Westlands Water District, which has been forced to cut irrigation supplies to hundreds of thousands of acres of agricultural land. California Farm Bureau Federation President Doug Mosebar estimates that Fresno County could lose 20% to 30% of its agricultural output this season...
...written by Howard A. Rodman; not yet rated; out now In this acid, fact-based portrait of the idle rich, love means finding new ways to hurt the ones you love most. Julianne Moore is the desperate mom, Stephen Dillane the sour dad, and two fine young actors, Barney Clark and Eddie Redmayne, play their son at various stages of his promise and ruin. A lush, creepy, boldly acted tale of suffocating passion...