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When Richard Meier unveiled in 2000 his first project in New York City, a luxury condo building overlooking the Hudson River, he started a trend. Now deep-pocketed Manhattanites who missed out on Meier's foray will have another shot at the comforts of home--walls of undulating glass, private bowling alleys, state-of-the-art everything. In addition to another Meier tower, three high-end condo projects are in the works. For his first apartment building, architect Charles Gwathmey is transforming a former parking lot in Greenwich Village into a 21-story tower, Astor Place (above). The building...
...Yankees suck, Jeter swallows” routine and set their sights on New York catcher Jorge Posada. Though I was tucked away in a back-alley garden restaurant, Red Sox Nation had targeted me, too, as its inebriated agents would on several other occasions during my brief foray into the Great White North...
...Qaeda's foray into drugs dates from the days when the Taliban ruled the country. Though most devout Muslims consider narcotics taboo, bin Laden never directly condemned drug sales. A Western antinarcotics official says that in early 2001 al-Qaeda's financial experts joined forces with Khan and other alleged top Afghan drug traffickers to persuade Taliban leader Omar to ban opium cultivation. The ban was self-serving: it drove up opium prices from $30 per kilogram to nearly $650. That meant huge profits for the Taliban and their trafficker friends who were sitting on large stockpiles when prices soared...
...began to want larger audiences for my work and I began to want to have more control over telling the story,” she says. Nair says that her first foray into fictional filmmaking was driven by the desire to make a film of street kids in the style of a documentary...
Pang says the new requirement has marred his experience even after making it to the United States by a narrow margin. He encountered the system immediately after stepping off the plane when he returned from a trip to Barcelona he took this past spring—his first foray out of the country since he barely made...