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Sunny, oracular and indefatigable, Libeskind tends to smile, especially when he's at his most argumentative. He knows that people like their geniuses to be daringly off the cuff sometimes. So he sketched out his initial plan for the museum on a dozen or so napkins, which the ROM duly...
Thorsell insists that in choosing Libeskind he didn't think he was taking a risk. That could be, but when Libeskind got the Toronto job, on Feb. 26, 2002, he was famous for exactly one building, the much talked-about Jewish Museum in Berlin that was his first major commission...
Nigeria pumped its first barrel in the 1950s and has since set records for corruption. The government's own anticorruption watchdog, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, estimates that between independence in 1960 and 1999, the country's rulers stole $400 billion in oil revenues - equal to all the foreign...
Praxeres, executive director of the National Petroleum Agency, insists it won't happen. São Tomé has constructed a watertight system of oversight and transparency, he says, that will take petrol revenue out of government hands and put it under the control of an independent commission. The government...
Those gangs may have already claimed one of Velasquez's own. Santiago Rafael Cruz, 29, who had worked for FLOC in Ohio before getting a job with the union in Mexico, was discovered bound and tortured to death in its Monterrey offices, not far from the U.S. consulate, on April...