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...wife and child] will die, and I will leave you in this room to rot. Let the game begin." It's Jigsaw's favorite, and only, game: confining his victim in some medieval-looking device made of old found objects (the movie takes its anachronistic notion of production design from Terry Gilliam's Brazil), then telling the prisoner that in a few minutes the device will be activated, resulting in death or its jaw-breaking equivalent, unless the victim can find a key hidden in, say, the stomach of a wounded man in the same room...
...Christian Lacroix, or a floor-length silk robe that looks like a find from a Parisian vintage shop? Bangkok has been undergoing a fashion renaissance - but most travelers still don't realize it's home to a coterie[an error occurred while processing this directive] of young, forward-minded designers who are happy to whip up specially tailored creations. Here are three addresses certain to please any style hound hungering for something unique. ENLEVER SES VETEMENTS: Despite its name (take off their clothes in French), this menswear shop, tel: (66-2) 640 8088, is all about putting on a daily...
...swung open its doors in July, and is a good example of the new kind of venue to be found - blending northern-Chinese substance with an international style more commonly found in China's worldlier south. Housed in a crumbling former state schoolhouse near the Workers' Stadium, the striking, design-driven watering hole and accompanying restaurants (Lan Na Thai and the Indian Hazara) cost $1.9 million to develop. As in Face Shanghai (there are also Face bars in Jakarta and Bangkok), eclectic pan-Asian chic is the order of the decorative day, incorporating a controlled mishmash of antiques and artworks...
...Architecture Department Chair Toshiko Mori never publicly called for a vote of no confidence in Design School Dean Alan A. Altshuler's leadership this past winter. Mori does acknowledge that she and other department chairs warned Altshuler that such a vote had been proposed. The Oct. 24 news article, "GSD Dean To Step Down," inaccurately described this paper's own March 3 report on strife between Altshuler and department chairs. The March report never said Mori was an instigator of the no-confidence vote...
...acquired the system from IBM early this fall and researchers began operating at the beginning of October, according to Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Venkatesh Narayanamurti. “The unique architecture that combines performance with scalability in a tremendously efficient power and floor space design,” is what makes the system special, Sircar wrote in an e-mail. The CrimsonGridBGL’s enormous processing ability—4,096 processors performing 11 trillion floating-point calculations per second, using five times less power than a traditional computer cluster with the same capability?...