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...fighters turned the village of Mir Bacha Kot outside Kabul into a terrorist-training camp. Some six hours of video were recently found there, according to Afghan intelligence sources. These haunting still images from the videotape show what appear to be Arab, African and European fighters honing their deadly craft--all prelude, it turns out, to the group's much bolder and more horrific attack on Sept...
...five key organizers of the wildly successful Games in Sydney, which beat out Beijing by two votes back in 1993, and made them China's exclusive counselors. For more than two months last winter, Phillips and friends spent 16-hour days in Beijing helping craft key documents. When the International Olympic Committee sent an evaluation crew to grill the committee, Phillips and his team suggested answers the Chinese might have muffed, such as making them omit the usual "evil-cult" epithet from comments on the underground Falun Gong spiritual movement. Phillips even solved Beijing's dreaded puppy problem. Many Chinese...
...that Lay offered to support Hebert's continuing in that role if Hebert would take a friendlier view toward energy deregulation. Hebert declined, and the Bush Administration replaced him. Lay and other Enron officials met six times with officials led by Vice President Dick Cheney (a former oilman) to craft a new energy policy. That policy, not surprisingly, was friendly to Enron and other energy companies...
...AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM Husband-and-wife architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien were the perfect team for this vest-pocket New York City museum. Their famous feel for craft and material is something that folk artists understand. But their exercises in stone, glass and ingeniously textured metals are carried out within a modernist idiom that never looks quaint or "folkloric." Who knew you could work so many delightful configurations of space and surprising vistas--plus three staircases--into a relatively small building? It's a jewel-box museum that's a jewel in itself...
...American Folk Art Museum Husband-and-wife architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien were the perfect team for this vest-pocket New York City museum. Their famous feel for craft and material is something that folk artists understand. But their exercises in stone, glass and ingeniously textured metals are carried out within a modernist idiom that never looks quaint or "folkloric." Who knew you could work so many delightful configurations of space and surprising vistas - plus three staircases - into a relatively small building? It's a jewel-box museum that's a jewel in itself...