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...seen in Art Nouveau and Art Deco Lamps and Candlesticks by Wolf Uecker (Abbeville; 280 pages; $75). Illustrations include color and black-and-white photographs of glass lamps by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Daum Freres, brass fantasies wrought by Josef Hoffmann and a lacquered wood-and-parchment floor fixture by Eileen Gray. There are modernist abstractions as well as familiar nymphs in flowing robes. Among the most delightful surprises: a bronze snail, its light contained beneath a shell of oxide-colored glass, and Emile Galle's magnificent lamp, a trio of mushrooms...
...them, 'One more year.'" She vows, "My New Year's resolution is to get out." And it grows stronger every time she navigates the dangerous passage past the dope dealers and gang members in the graffiti-covered lobby, through the piles of garbage in the halls, to the sixth floor in a lurching elevator lighted by a single, dimly glowing bulb. Her son John is now at the age when many other boys in Cabrini-Green become "foot soldiers" in the gangs, which use them for killing missions because juvenile sentences are more lenient. She stays only because she cannot...
...next 30 years. Volz, a 24-year- old real estate agent and publisher of a tourism and fashion magazine called El Puente (The Bridge), is charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend, Doris Ivania Jimenez, a beautiful young Nicaraguan woman who was found raped and strangled to death on the floor of the clothing boutique she owned in San Juan...
...Senate measure, expected to go to the floor soon after Bush's speech next week, would be nonbinding. However, a strong and bipartisan vote against Bush's surge strategy could pave the way for bolder congressional moves in coming months, including putting restrictions on how money for the Iraq war is spent. One test could come as early as February, when the White House is expected to send Congress a request for supplemental funding for the war. Representative John Murtha, who opposes the war and chairs the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, has said he won't move to cut off funds...
...Stop the Widener elevator at every floor to delay anxious researchers. Hit the emergency stop if you’re feeling particularly ornery...