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...circle, widely known as Chemical Ali because of allegations that he ordered the gassing that killed some 5,000 Kurds in 1988. No battle was complete, it seemed, until American forces had torn down a Saddam poster or toppled a statue of his likeness. When Saddam International Airport, an emblem of the regime's ambitions 10 miles from the capital, fell to the 3rd Infantry's front line, the Americans promptly renamed it Baghdad International Airport. As the Americans rushed toward Baghdad, the Iraqi dictator was already being squeezed, his circle of supporters shrinking...
...chic Rue Croix-Baragnon. Great artisan pottery at Nature et Sens, Rue Pharaon (tel. +33 (0) 5 61 14 12 37). Violette & Pastel, Rue St. Pantaléon (tel. +33 (0) 5 61 22 14 22), has candies, liqueurs and perfumes made from violets, the city's emblem...
...along with most of the designs submitted for the competition--buildings that swoop and stride--tell you again what Frank Gehry first made plain with his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. In architecture, the old world is dead. And with the exception of Gehry, there's no more powerful emblem of that change than Libeskind, 57, who was thrust into fame three years ago with his first building. In the late 1980s, when he won a competition to design the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Libeskind's name was known only to people who followed architectural theory. Though...
...people power is sincere. But if not, UNESCO and other international do-gooders in the heritage field stand ready to voice their objections. Besides, Borobudur is different. It exerts a powerful influence all its own. The stupa is the closest thing this fractious archipelago nation has to a unifying emblem. I have yet to visit an island in Indonesia, from the Indian Ocean to the fringes of Oceania, that doesn't have a Borobudur Restaurant. If there is any symbol in this divided land that could bring people together, it is this ancient monument to cosmic harmony...
...thousands of bed-and-breakfast inns. For those who insist on a 21st century association with the word Vikings, he's also created a football-theme room complete with AstroTurf, lockers from the Minnesota team's practice facilities and a urinal emblazoned with arch-rivals Green Bay Packers' emblem...