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...joined the architectural firm of Webb andKnapp in 1948, and has run his own firm, now Pei,Cobb, Freed and Partners, since 1955. He was awheelwright fellow at Harvard...
James Nichols was ordered freed without bail after a hearing today in Detroit. Federal prosecutors had argued for the first time thatNichols, brother of bombing suspect Terry Nichols, wasconnected to the Oklahoma City bombing. However, U.S. District Judge Paul Borman ordered Nichols released after determining that thegovernment had not presented sufficient evidenceto justify holding him. A little more than a month after the bombing, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building will be demolished tomorrow in Oklahoma City. Demolition crews say it should only take a few minutes for the little more than 100 pounds of explosives they...
Thanks to the magic of Anne Tyler's fiction, Delia Grinstead, the heroine of Ladder of Years (Knopf; 326 pages; $24), is largely freed from such constraints. Married straight out of high school to a doctor 15 years her senior, Delia now finds herself in a comfortable Baltimore home with three nearly grown children and no intelligible reasons for staying where she is. She reads paperback romances out of boredom and feels excluded from the fun. "She was," she tells herself, "a sad, tired, anxious, forty-year-old woman who hadn't had a champagne brunch in decades...
Marking hisfirst anniversary as president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela announced that prisoners charged with possession of weapons for political purposes will be freed ahead of schedule. TIME South Africa reporter Peter Hawthorne says that in general, the celebration has been decidedly low key: "Most people took a holiday, but there's been no great dancing in the streets." Mandela made his announcement before a crowd of about 5,000 in Pretoria, which was only a tenth the size of the crowd that witnessed his inauguration last year. But then, stability draws smaller crowds. "People were concerned that expectations couldn...
That was the poisoned state of affairs on March 19, when the Osaka police broke into one of the cult's offices and freed a student they claimed was being held there against his will. The raid had been a long time in the planning, both in order to assemble evidence and because the Japanese authorities are particularly sensitive to charges that they are persecuting religious groups. Nonetheless, concerns about Aum's possible connection with sarin and other sect-related tensions prompted them to act. In response, the cult's leaders had its lawyers file suit. And the next...