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...corner, like a museum piece, sits his parents' red Mustang convertible that he drove as a kid. "The first pavilion is mainly for public entertaining," he says as he picks his way past construction debris down four levels of stairs. Despite the hour, three technicians are working in the ground-floor reception hall, with its view of the Olympic Mountains across Lake Washington, adjusting two dozen 40-in. monitors that will form a flat-screen display covering an entire wall. "When you visit, you'll get an electronic pin encoded with your preferences," he explains. "As you wander toward...
...FORBES BUILDING IN NEW YORK City is in an odd neighborhood for a corporate headquarters: the fringe of Greenwich Village, set with sedate apartment buildings and churches from the 1840s. It's odd inside too: the ground-floor museum, founded by the late Malcolm Forbes Sr., is stuffed with presidential autographs, czarist Faberge eggs and toy soldiers. From this improbable aerie, Forbes' eldest son Malcolm ("Steve") Forbes Jr., the 48-year-old editor in chief of Forbes magazine, plans to descend into the scrum of Republican presidential politics. He could announce his candidacy as early as this week...
...loved and rewarded for his disorderly conduct. He once had a street act in New York City in which his magic fingers casually unbuttoned a young woman's blouse. The police failed to appreciate the artistry. He also missed the gravy train when he turned down a ground-floor offer from Muppets creator Jim Henson...
When the building officially opens its doors to the public this week, the signs of disarray will be all too visible. The ground-floor restaurant, bookstore and travel agency are concrete shells with dangling wires; in recession-gripped Paris, the center has found no suitable concessionaires. The language classrooms are also empty, since the center canceled all its English courses last March. And all but two of the 27 artist-in-residence apartments are unfinished, because expected corporate sponsorship didn't materialize. "I went and looked at the building a few weeks ago, and I wanted to cry," says Gehry...
Bakhtiar and his personal secretary, Fouroush Katibeh, greeted the guests in a ground-floor salon. As soon as Katibeh went to the kitchen to make tea, one of the visitors leaped at Bakhtiar and, according to the autopsy report, struck a "mortal blow" to the throat. The secretary was similarly dispatched. With two knives grabbed from the kitchen, the assailants hacked at their victims' throats, chests and arms so savagely that a knife blade was broken. An hour after arriving, Boyerahmadi calmly collected the trio's passports, and the men drove off in an orange BMW. The guards failed...