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Govan, 44, solves problems for a living. An East Coast art star who is best known for his work turning an abandoned factory into the Dia Art Foundation's showplace in Beacon, N.Y., in 2003, he was hired 22 months ago to bring his magic to LACMA, a museum that even its most prominent backer, collector Eli Broad, calls "very tired...
...integrate a cluster of disparate buildings, linking them with walkways, plazas and gardens. Piano's design was in place before Govan's arrival, but he has already convinced the architect to rethink the museum's new entrance and brought in the sort of contemporary artists who helped put his Dia:Beacon on the international map. Chris Burden is readying more than 200 historic lampposts, and Robert Irwin is curating a garden of palm trees. If all goes according to plan, expect a 161-ft. (49 m) crane dangling a 70-ft. (21.3 m) train replica courtesy of Jeff Koons, plus...
...invasion of Iraq and had helped shorten the war by minimizing the Iraqi army's resistance to American forces. "We called him on the phone and said, Look, we will kill your units if you don't do x," a former senior officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency (dia) told Time. "Then he went and got the commanders to not fight, which saved American lives...
...sentence left U.S. officials with a dilemma. Should they refuse to hand over a lawfully convicted prisoner and invite a confrontation with the Iraqi government, or should they deliver to the gallows a man who had risked his life to assist the U.S.? "We have certain principles," says the dia official. "When people help us, we really, really do try to go out of our way to keep promises." That sentiment may have won Hashem a reprieve, but it could prove temporary. A spokesman for Petraeus says the pledges made in 2003 don't apply to the current situation. "There...
...subsequent meeting, chaired by Condi Rice, DIA confirmed that they were paying the INC $350,000 a month for its ser vices in Baghdad. We knew that the INC's armed militia had seized tens of thousands of Saddam regime documents and was slowly doling them out to the U.S. government. Beyond that it was unclear to me what the Pentagon was getting for its money. Somehow the president's direction to pull the plug on the arrangement continued to be ignored...