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...surprise that when the institution's new outpost, Dia: Beacon, opened on Sunday, it was considered the world's largest museum of contemporary art. Five years ago, Dia director Michael Govan went searching for a building to hold some of the foundation's nearly 700 works. In Beacon, N.Y., a struggling Hudson River town, he found an abandoned factory, built in 1929 and used for decades to print boxes for Nabisco crackers. Fifty million dollars later, the structure is nearly 250,000 sq. ft. of sunlit display space. And much of it will be given over to some...
...with more than 250 colleagues, friends (and many ex-friends), Crick exposes the mess of contradictions, shenanigans and charms of the man known always to his players as the Boss. Ferguson, now 60, grew up in the shadow of the shipyard his family had worked in for generations in Govan, a district of Glasgow where the running battles of Catholic-Protestant sectarianism and workers' rights were fought on the soccer pitch and the shop floor. As a trainee tool cutter and trade union organizer, Ferguson was at the front of an apprentices' strike for better pay in 1960 and again...
...sushi chef and inventor of kaiten-zushi, a clever conveyor-belt system for serving sushi in restaurants that uses color-coded plates to inform customers of the prices; in Osaka. In 1958, Shiraishi opened the first restaurant using his method, which quickly gained popularity throughout Japan and overseas. DIED. GOVAN MBEKI, 91, father of South African President Thabo Mbeki and longtime antiapartheid activist who was jailed in 1964 along with Nelson Mandela, a fellow African National Congress leader; in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He was released from prison in 1987 and, seven years later, won a seat in Parliament...
Shortly after African National Congress Leader Govan Mbeki was set free this month, a group of his supporters held a rally at Johannesburg's Khotso House, headquarters of a dozen antiapartheid groups. Only a year earlier, white occupants of an apartment house across the street had caused a minor riot at the same spot by tossing flowerpots and other missiles onto the crowd from their balconies. This time curious residents again peered from their balconies, but no one down below thought of ducking. Even though the apartment building is restricted by law to whites only, most of the onlookers were...
...became potent symbols of black resistance to white minority rule. They were all senior members of the African National Congress, the outlawed antiapartheid organization. The only white among them was granted clemency in 1985 after agreeing to renounce violence. The rest refused to accept that condition. Last week Govan Mbeki, 77, became the first black in the group to be freed...