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...downtown Lima, inside Peru's National Antiterrorism Bureau, agents are putting the finishing touches on the new Terror Museum. Most of the display cases hold police-confiscated kitsch: rebel soap carvings, music boxes that play communist hymns, all of them bearing the image of Abimael Guzmán. "Presidente Gonzalo," as his followers call him, is the leader of Shining Path, the bloodthirsty Maoist guerrillas who killed more than half of the 69,000 Peruvians who died in the armed conflicts of the 1980s and early '90s, according to a report issued in August by Peru's Truth and Reconciliation...
...ashore. You can even take it to Malaysia for golf. The tab is $2,600 per day CHICAGO: ANGELA'S CHARTER SERVICE Skate around the harbor on the 18.3-m SunSea, which, unique for a boat this length, can pass through the locks and up the Chicago River to downtown. Six hours costs $1,800 for 20 people CANNES: DOLMEN CHARTER Sail like a movie star on the 20.4-m, 16-passenger L'Alliance, which has a 40-h.p. outboard motor and a kayak, starting...
...Roxy Theatre downtown, Spear seems almost tentative in his singing at times, but the effect is deceptive. Old-school reggae highlights a singer’s phrasing and timing like old jazz standards, and Spear is a master of the technique...
Splendor is not too strong a word for what Gehry has brought to downtown Los Angeles. But for a long time, trouble was an appropriate word too. "We went through hell," says Gehry, sitting amid the huge bustle of his office in a converted warehouse in Santa Monica. "But in the end, we made it work." That's putting it mildly on both counts. The Disney Hall may be one of the most anguished creative triumphs since the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. But now that it's here, it can be counted on to reverberate not just through...
...this month, it has claimed a cult following and turned Brent, played by British actor Ricky Gervais, into a hit with the media cognoscenti. A couple of weeks ago, in New York City, Gervais was interviewed on TV by a flattering David Letterman and afterward headed downtown to a screening of the show and a Q. and A. with the audience, which included a die-hard fan, the singer-songwriter Moby...