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Back in Europe, a group of young Dutch architects led by Ergün Erkoçu wanted their concept for the Polder Mosque to achieve a similar level of cool. Riffing on the Dutch idea of seeking consensus, their design features not minarets but windmills. Inside, they planned space for a hammam (or bathhouse) and a row of shops. The mosque was never meant to exist but to generate discussion. Mission accomplished: elders have sniffed that it isn't traditional enough and Dutch-born Muslims eager to see the mosque's role expand beyond prayer have applauded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Updating the Mosque for the 21st Century | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...trio, we do some original music, we do some contemporary classical music from the new record,” says King. “And we bring out Wendy and [continue to] tear it apart. We try to do everything with the same energy. It’s very cool...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bad Plus Adds Diverse Musical Elements to Jazz | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...with their empty lives of artifice and loneliness. After a one-night stand in Dubai and a week of lovemaking in Rome two years later, they decide that they belong together and hatch an escape plan. All they need in the world is each other and a cool $40 million to finance their tastes in Italian hotels, beachfront villas, and flowing Moet. But this romantically simple end begets a series of complicated means as the two spies become increasingly entangled in the world of corporate espionage and counter-intelligence. Written and directed by Tony Gilroy, the writer behind the wildly...

Author: By Lauren S. Packard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Duplicity | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...would’ve stood in the lobby for the rest of my life. Stunned by my great idiocy. The idiocy of rightdoing through wrongdoing. He shook his head with a smile. “Our Lord is risen.” He was clutching the handles, mashing their cool to his palms. And then he was pulling.The weighty oaks wrenched back. The congregation spilled into view: a vista of judgment. Ezekiel’s arms spread wide, arcing as they stretched to their tips. He turned his head and motioned me in.My left knee gave out but he stayed...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FEATURED FICTION | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...world, earning accolades as a talented, tough and steady leader. But as a consummate insider who formerly served as President and COO, he must also shake the public perception that feckless leadership has played a large part in GM's slide toward insolvency. Henderson is known for keeping his cool in tough spots, but there are few hotter seats in the business world than the one he's just landed in. (See pictures of General Motors plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fritz Henderson: GM's Interim CEO | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

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