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This would not have been the position most people would have predicted for Piano in 1977, when he became suddenly famous for one of the funniest buildings of all time. The Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, which he co-designed with the British architect Richard Rogers, is a museum that's been disemboweled, its brightly colored ventilation tubes, pipes and escalator draped along the exterior in a riot of externalized intestines...
That was then. Today Arapahoe's famous sons are Democratic governor Bill Ritter and Andrew Romanoff, the Democratic speaker of the house. The Republican Party is 4,000 voters away from losing its registration advantage in the county. And in 2004, Bush won by less than 3 points here, roughly half his margin across the state. Democrats now hold 8 of 11 state house seats in Arapahoe, and they are one seat away from taking over the county commission. What explains the shift? At the same time that nearby Jefferson and Douglas counties were wooing away Arapahoe's upwardly mobile...
It’s impossible to avoid these strange slogans, popping out from brightly colored backgrounds in nearly every corner of the underground metro. This massive advertisement campaign is for the newest addition to Maxis Software, the creators of the world-famous “The Sims.” But don’t expect to see picture perfect families in this new video game—“Spore” is all about creating your very own species, from the cute and cuddly to the downright bizarre...
...looking to profit off of his possessions any time soon. Noyer says of the wine glass, “I think it is probably going to be washed the next time I wash my other wine glasses and it will just go into vocation as a famous wine glass amongst my regular ones...
...Giovanni Cipollini, who heads Pietrasanta's local pro-resistance association, said he had offered to put Lee in touch with partisans who were present, but that the director refused. "This is very delicate," he says. "When a famous director makes a major movie about a chapter in history, people will believe that his version is the truth." Cipollini led a group distributing flyers of protest at Wednesday's screening in Viareggio, near the setting of the film...