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...company's name, First ABC Transportation Inc., painted in neat navy blue block letters. Unlike most drivers at ABC, who drove eight- or nine-hour shifts, Zazi routinely worked 16-to-18-hour days, often putting in as many as 80 hours a week ferrying passengers to and from DIA. "He was a regular kind of guy, but he worked hard and he wanted money," says Hicham Semmaml, a Moroccan-born ABC driver. "I would have never suspected any of this." (Read the three key questions about the Zazi case...
...roots in the world of spirit. Convinced that it held secrets the modern world was in dire need of, Chopra turned his life around. He stopped the cigarettes and alcohol and plunged into a study of Ayurveda and other sciences of traditional healing. Soon he was downloading In-dia's vast corpus of wisdom on the subject into a series of slim, digestible volumes with names like Perfect Health and Uncondi-tional Life. From insomnia to obesity to cancer, no modern misery went unexamined...
Halloween wasn’t the only event celebrated this past weekend—the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology ensured that “Dia de los Muertos,” a festival with Mexican and Central American origins, was commemorated as well. This weekend, the museum staged a two-part celebration. During the day, it held a family-oriented series of activities which included sugar skull painting, papel picado craft, and skull mask making. Harvard Ballet Folklórico de Aztlán, a traditional Mexican folk dancing troupe, also made an appearance. Later...
...apparently took a while to convince him. Trustees say they originally didn't think Govan would be interested, given his high-profile work as Dia's president and director, and the director concedes he resisted their overtures. But eventually Govan decided that he simply couldn't pass up the opportunity, citing everything from the city's ports to its diversity and, most passionately, the vitality of its visual-arts scene and plethora of filmmakers, designers and other creative people...
Instead of producing his own art, Govan has spent much of his career nurturing and learning from artists. At the Guggenheim, he came into contact with such artists as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, and when he got to Dia in 1994, he helped his artists dream big. Besides offering them close to 240,000 sq. ft. (73,000 sq m) of exhibition space at Dia, he embraced such large-scale earthworks as Michael Heizer's City project and James Turrell's Roden Crater...