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...often cast by his critics as a Hamlet-like figure, a daydreamer unable to carry out his plans. This exhibition shows quite the opposite. When the shells at first proved too irregular to cast from cement, Utzon drew on a 900-year-old Chinese treatise on architecture, Ying Zao Fa Shi, which taught the pure assembly of standardized elements. His solution was to construct the shells from prefabricated segments of the one sphere, so they could be self-supporting. Utzon had just standardized his plywood interiors, which were to be "assembled like a big jigsaw puzzle in space," when...
...interim government who are desperate for national reconciliation see the value of according a role to al-Sadr and his wide following. When the interim government regained sovereignty, Prime Minister Allawi opened talks with the cleric, even offering clemency for the murder charge against him. For weeks, Fa'oud Massoum, the chairman of the committee organizing the national conference to choose an interim legislature, tried to persuade al-Sadr to send representatives, but he has refused...
...have medaled in the event in a nonboycotted Olympics. And Paul Hamm became the first American man to take gold in the individual all-around. The Koreans protested the scoring; although their appeal was rejected, three judges were suspended, leaving Hamm's victory under a cloud. Behind the graceful façade, gymnastics is brutal...
...Mirage. "The trick is to add other dimensions to the town, open the door to more people." The other U.S. licensee, Las Vegas Sands, averages more than 30,000 visitors a day at the $240 million Sands Macao, which uses the Portuguese spelling. But the Sands, with its golden façade and shimmering neon-purple fountain, will have some sibling rivalry in 2006 when its parent company finishes an $800 million replica of the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, complete with imitation canals and singing gondoliers. Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson is so gung ho about Macau that he is enlisting...
...have no confidence in all of you ... This is a façade of a fair trial." Anwar Ibrahim, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, at a hearing in the final appeal of his 1998 conviction for sodomy