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Want to know where global commercial culture is going? Go to the movie and visit the websites (and don’t forget the .fr, .jp, or .za versions) and play the video game and shop at a Toys R Us. Want to know how China is dealing with its international image? Look at how the government treats Zhang Yimou. Want proof that film has to be fought for? Look at how Harvey Weinstein treats Zhang Yimou...
...lower Manhattan where the "edomae nigiri sushi" goes for as much as $90 a person and where, in the center of the main dining room, you will find a 5-ft.-high ice sculpture of the Buddha that, no surprise, is replaced every day. Ice? Well, if you forget every banquet-hall buffet centerpiece you've ever seen, it's possible to think of ice as the last word in enigmatic swank, prettier than crystal, hard enough to be a murder weapon but more perishable than cashmere. In this lavishly conceived room, with its pillars made from earthenware sake vessels...
...capable of infinite development, enabling specially gifted athletes to continue breaking records for all time to come. That expectation is the reason that athletes use performance-enhancing drugs. They know they are not capable of surpassing records without resorting to such drugs. It would be much healthier to forget about world records and let athletes at each Olympic Games compete for records that would be valid only for the Games of that year. Ralferd C. Freytag Victoria, Canada It was a delight to watch all the athletes participating in the Athens Games. Hats off to the authorities for making...
...Forget boxes on wheels and tacky subdivisions. Prefab is now just plain fab. Once the poor stepchild of residential construction, so-called systems-built housing is now the province of topflight architects, who are reinventing the genre with innovative designs, new building components and environmentally friendly approaches. In September, Lindal (2003 sales: $50 million) begins offering two versions of the Graves-designed kit house on its website, where it already sells a prefab home created by James Cutler, the architect behind the home of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. New Jersey architect-cum-performance artist Adam Kalkin is taking orders...
...unthinkable occurs, we will deal with it. We should behave the way our law-enforcement and natural-disaster personnel do: quietly, efficiently - without alarming the public with color codes and "special reports." Tony DiBiasio Surprise, Arizona, U.S. President Bush is right on target. Terrorists are our biggest threat. Forget worrying about the economy. That won't matter if we allow terrorists to destroy our nation. Rosemary Stock Strongsville, Ohio, U.S. Highly sensitive information about possible terrorist attacks, regardless of the public interest, should be revealed only on a need-to-know basis. And that need should be determined...