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...family. Jonathan Gregson, a Calcutta-born journalist now based in London, was in Kathmandu in the weeks after the attack, running with a pack of foreign reporters who fought to tell the story. One by one the grieving eyewitnesses came forward and recounted the same chilling tale: Crown Prince Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah had gunned down his family, then shot himself...
Hewitt is the leading snit-distributor in men's tennis, a player whose take-no-prisoners attitude has produced two Grand Slam singles titles. This week he defends his U.S. Open crown, two months after conquering Wimbledon. It's the same attitude that has driven him to unseemly conflicts with fans, opponents, tour officials and umpires. At the French Open, he called the chair umpire "spastic," and he got into an ugly run-in with an umpire at last year's U.S. Open. More recently he rang up a $105,650 fine, now under appeal, for allegedly running afoul...
Whatever Mahony may have thought about Gehry's exuberant aesthetic, he found a kindred spirit in Moneo, a 1996 winner of the Pritzker Prize, the crown jewel of architectural awards. But even before its official opening, on Labor Day weekend, there have been grumblings that the cathedral's asymmetrical and angular silhouette departs too sharply from conventional notions of church design, especially that of Catholic churches. There have also been complaints that its $163 million cost is too high, especially at a time when the archdiocese may have to spend heavily to settle court claims of sexual abuse by priests...
...like Ramatuelle - and navigate the deadliest roads in the European Union to get there. In 2000, France's 8,079 road fatalities topped the E.U. rankings - well ahead of the 7,503 in Germany, which has 33% more cars and 36% less road space. France has held the dubious crown since 1998 and doesn't appear ready to relinquish it anytime soon. Last year road deaths climbed to 8,160, and for the first five months of 2002 deaths were up 2.5% over the previous year. Car accidents have become the leading cause of mortality among people aged...
...meetings, focus groups and overnight polling. The goal: to improve the image of the Saudis in the U.S. Only 32% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Saudi Arabia, down from 60% during the Gulf War. The point man for the campaign, Adel al-Jubeir, a top aide to Crown Prince Abdullah, says that after Sept. 11, "we discovered Americans don't know us. So we decided to explain ourselves to them...