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Lyons is an architect's textbook, where the oldest Roman theater in France (circa 1st century B.C.) is only a fossil's throw from a vast urban-renewal project that will include a science museum by Austrian architects Coop Himmelblau - a dissonantly angular 21st century "crystal cloud" intended to "float" 12 m above the ground...
Dumala’s themes and figures border on the grotesque—a dripping tongue hanging out of a window, a girl with beetles for eyes, a line of shadowy people walking under a solitary rain cloud, clocks embedded in the graves in a cemetery—and the Kafkaesque: Indeed, one of Dumala’s fake film “advertisements” proclaims “Miniature Film Studio Presents a Piotr Dumala Film: Franz Kafka.” All of the figures in Dumala’s drawings display a unique, fascinating dynamism and animation...
...most anticipated day of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Enron hearings since Ken Lay's no-show Monday, lawmakers easily positioned the cloud of blame over Jeff Skilling's relatively full head of executive-style hair. But they couldn't quite make it rain...
...complete enough. Louisiana Republican Billy Tauzin's committee led off with four people that Skilling, trying to keep the cloud below him on the executive chain, would later have no problem remembering - Andrew Fastow, Michael Kopper, Richard Buy and Richard Causey. The four men, in turn, had no problem taking the Fifth Amendment and quickly departed. Then Tauzin brought out its heroes, former company Treasurer Andrew McMahon and former in-house lawyer Jordan Mintz. Both said they went to Skilling with their concerns about the shady partnerships - and to get his approval on them - and Skilling reportedly gave them...
...blame? Everybody else. Mintz and McMahon nudged the cloud upward toward Skilling (and Lay, and Buy and Causey and Kopper and Fastow). Robert Jaedicke and Herbert Winokur, two Enron board members trying to explain why they missed the whole thing, did likewise, throwing in Arthur Andersen and law firm Vinson & Elkins. Said Winokur: "It appears outside experts...failed us." Officials at both Arthur Andersen and Enron, added Jaedicke, "did not fulfill their duty...