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...shiny and aloof was how they did performing-arts complexes back then, with lots of bright lights, white stone and dancing waters but not much connection to the neighborhood. In 1964 the Music Center of Los Angeles County was deposited into the nowheresville of downtown L.A., a part of the city where very few people actually lived. It wasn't just that the place didn't reach out to the neighborhood. There was no neighborhood to reach...
...which amounted to nine rebounds and four hard-earned points from under the basket. Cornell was strong from beyond the arc, racking up more than half of their overall points from 3-point range. Agile Big Red guard Lauren Benson silenced the crowd multiple times after draining jumpers from downtown. But Harvard always had an answer for Cornell’s sharpshooting. Tay and Markley led the Crimson early as they crafted a 15-3 run that ended midway through the second half. In the opening minutes, Cornell’s Benson sunk a long jumper and dished to forward...
...Matsui again from way downtown. HARVARD 20, COLUMBIA...
...Lincoln's tomb looms over the Oak Ridge Cemetery not far from downtown Springfield. This massive granite edifice, decorated with statues cast from melted cannons and topped by an obelisk rising 117 feet, is a testament to the enormous place Lincoln occupies in America's heart and memory. As if to remind us, though, of Lincoln's genius for understatement, his burial marker inside is starkly simple - a name and two dates...
...picture of a genial Tom Cruise hangs above the door to the King beauty parlor in downtown Basra. For more than a decade, Sameer Abdalhadi has been snipping and shaving and primping in the cramped salon with its display case of Dr. James Freckle and Acne Soap and Muscular Man perfume. On this February afternoon, he has given street vendor Mustafa Abdalsada a modish en brosse haircut and shaved his beard, leaving just a hint of designer stubble. Local men tend to cultivate beards or luxuriant mustaches of the kind that make even despots look avuncular, but Abdalhadi encourages...