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...globally respected. Huang, 40, is a new kind of bureaucrat. The English-speaking architect, trained in Belgium, Germany and China, is not a Communist Party member. She is striving "to bring fresh air" to China's musty, Soviet-style planning dogmas, which have left much of the capital grim, dusty and clogged with traffic. Huang argues for more attention to how humans actually live, what makes sense for the environment and how to adapt to China's racing real estate market...
...story of Elizabeth Odunsi and Iyabo Nwanze begins like the grim familiar tale of illegal immigrants anywhere. Fleeing religious violence, the two mothers followed a path taken by thousands of other Nigerians, and in 2001 sought refuge in Ireland with their six children. They lived on government rations in a trailer park built to house refugees on the outskirts of Athlone, a sleepy midlands town, while awaiting a verdict on their asylum applications. Community worker Salome Mbugua Henry describes the scene as "kind of like an open prison system." The two women took vocational classes and made Irish friends...
...south of France, where they hoped to pick up some tips from the master himself, Picasso. The two knocked on Picasso's door, asking to meet the artist. "They told us to get lost," Botero laughs. Botero's plump, comical characters appear even when the subject matter is grim. Central to the exhibition in Rome are some of the darkest images Botero has ever created: 45 paintings and drawings depicting the Abu Ghraib prison abuses in Iraq. The canvases - including Abu Ghraib 43, which shows a bruised, hooded detainee tied to the bars of his cell - will be shown publicly...
...writes that Guant?namo Bay?where inmates have been held indefinitely without formal charges?has had a "profound effect" on the liberal ?lites that are America's "best friends abroad." Many Americans don't yet see the corrosive effects of this injustice, viewing Guant?namo as a necessary evil in a grim but vital war against the people who brought down the Twin Towers and beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. But I'll bet Christopher Hill gets it. Hill is the U.S. diplomat now charged with trying to get key negotiating partners in line to deal with North Korea...
...double cappuccino at a Greenwich Village cafe. "I suspect it will look to some people like [I thought], 'Virginia Woolf was a gold mine. I might as well try to cash in on Whitman as well.'" The poet appears in person only in the book's first part, a grim, oddly lyrical look at the lives of poor factory workers trapped in the filth and squalor of 19th century Manhattan. "Who was striding through all that but Mr. Walt Whitman?" Cunningham says. "'I sing the body electric!' The great embracer of all things, at a time when there was conspicuously...