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...media, but other cities have made their mark--CNN is headquartered in Atlanta, Google in Mountain View, Calif. The stars of Hollywood are bigger political lightning rods than New York's news anchors and talking heads, while imperial Washington is not just a barracks for politicians and a trading floor for lobbyists but also a center of think tanks and policy discussion. Years of bipartisan misgovernment have depressed the state of New York. Although New York City has rebounded from its early-'90s nadir, upstate is a shell of its former self. The local political talent pool has dried...
That same day, one of the top foreign policy Republicans on the Hill, Senator Richard Lugar, said in a surprising 50-min. speech on the Senate floor that Bush's new "surge" plan in Iraq is failing. "In my judgment, the costs and risks of continuing down the current path outweigh the potential benefits that might be achieved" in changing gears now, Lugar said. Other Republicans, from George Voinovich to John Warner, expressed similar impatience with the progress in Iraq, indicating more defections are not far behind...
...curfew that kicked in this spring for visitors under 18 at Mayfair Mall in suburban Milwaukee. Access was restricted for unsupervised teens on Fridays and Saturdays after several high-profile scuffles, including one in which an 18-year-old's handgun flew over the second-floor railing. The youth-oriented Campaign Against Violence protested that minors weren't responsible for most of the violence and argued that the new rule would take away one of the few safe places where teens can hang out, but the group ran into opposition when it tried to rally support from the community. Says...
WHEN COMPLETED IN 1949, THE HOUSE THAT Philip Johnson designed for himself in New Canaan, Conn., was the most resolute statement of Modernist principles ever set down in a leafy glade. An homage to the ideas of High Modernism developed in Europe between the wars, it consisted of floor-to-ceiling glass on all four sides, which was supported by eight steel piers on a brick platform. Not so much a house as the Platonic ideal of a house, it was also an affront to ordinary notions of domesticity and creaturely comfort, and this at a time when not many...
...held its annual camp. The University is a classic product of the Communist system, its campus full of students identified by the state who are there because of their skill and potential in a variety of sports, from gymnastics to Taekwando. But what was taking place on the fourth floor of a steaming hot gym on campus last month had nothing to do with Communism. Sixty one players, the vast majority from China, played spirited full court games and ran drills for three days, all under the watchful eye of current and former NBA players and coaches...