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...does his best to live up to it. He likes to upend old notions of inside and out, solid and porous, to say nothing of where windows should be or how comfortable you should feel about standing on one over an 18-m drop.[an error occurred while processing this directive] What Nouvel is doing with his arms over his head is making a little joke about floating in space, but he looks more as though he were about to take flight. And this week, Nouvel will be doing some high flying indeed. The Guthrie has its gala opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nouvel Vogue | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

...conservative and respectable that amused Habaneros are calling it "the best-dressed revolution in history." Of the chief rebel plotters outside the Sierra [Maestra, the rebels' mountain base], four are lawyers, three are physicians, two are financiers, one a mill owner. Deftly combining rebellion with business-as-usual, [an error occurred while processing this directive]each earns more than $20,000 a year. The rebels conspire behind brocade curtains in air-conditioned homes and offices. Wrote Time's Reporter Sam Halper after sitting in on one such meeting last week: "Silent servants opened the doors, poured the drinks and arranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Days | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

...west of London. For centuries Eton - founded in 1440 - has been synonymous with privilege, the place where Britain's élite is given its polish and an air of entitlement. But this class doesn't feel like a hothouse for languid aristocrats. The boys are not declaiming Latin[an error occurred while processing this directive] but staring into computer screens, trying to master the database program Microsoft Access. Though a student once told Maxwell that typing was something he could leave to his daddy's secretary, the school insists that all first-year students learn to type, so that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Kind of Elite | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

...College in Vancouver, Canada, bears the British school's name but there is little resemblance: it's a coeducational, post-secondary institution that doesn't take boarders. Eton, England, doesn't pay any mind. But when would-be Eton knock-off schools in China tried to pass themselves[an error occurred while processing this directive] off as affiliates, the original summoned its lawyers to send threatening letters to protect its name. That's not because Eton plans to develop its blue-chip brand abroad. But some of its rivals are doing just that. In the past decade, Harrow and Dulwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East of Eton | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

...name of the biggest-selling beer in Britain and main sponsors of the 77-year-old south London venue. As the Kaiser Chiefs play their closing-time anthem I Predict a Riot, it's not just any beer flying through the air, it's Carling - the only [an error occurred while processing this directive]beer for sale in any of the 16 music venues across Britain that the Molson Coors?owned brand has exclusive pouring rights for. Second, it's not just lads downing the lager; roughly half the 5,000-strong capacity crowd now holding Chiefs' frontman Ricky Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bands and Brands | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

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