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...asked what materials I would use for the buildings. I spoke of using stone in a major way that could reflect and refract the unique quality of the Southern California light, that would be grounded in the earth and feel like part of the hillside. At the time, I hadn't a clue what I was talking about. But flying back and forth across the Grand Canyon, my nose to the window, I thought, Now that's stone--and the Getty would have to make you feel some of that same kind of excitement...
...After the Poland defeat, the U.S. seemed destined to lose to Mexico in the round of 16. Over the years, the Tricolores had treated their northern neighbors like kid brothers, regularly slapping them around. But what the world hadn't realized is that during World Cup qualifying, the balance of power had shifted. The U.S. forced the Mexicans to play a qualifier in Columbus, Ohio, in frigid temperatures?far from the warmth of Los Angeles, the usual site, where 90,000 fans, most of them Mexican, would turn a U.S. home game into an away contest. The U.S. rocked...
...fact, they hadn't. The Israelis had warned Arafat in advance that they were coming. Their orders were to destroy half the buildings in Arafat's compound (called the Muqata'a), which they did over the course of a six-hour onslaught, but to leave Arafat unscathed, just as they had in a similar raid starting in late March. This new attack was payback for a bombing the day before that killed 17 Israelis. But the bombing had been claimed by Islamic Jihad, a radical Palestinian group that does not answer to Arafat and, moreover, opposes...
...announcement of a foiled "dirty bomb" plot - or at least the apprehension of a plotter who hadn't quite formulated his plan - serves as a timely reminder that congressional probes into pre-September 11 intelligence failures are taking place in the midst of continuing peril. But like those vague threat warnings that periodically emanate from the authorities these days, Monday's announcement of the detention of Abdullah al Muhajir poses more questions than it answers...
...dark side of the Company's activities in China. "The Opium Wars marked a turning point in history," says campaign organizer Steve Lau, who runs the Web site www.britishbornchinese.co.uk. "Chinese refer to the next century as the 'hundred years of shame.'" The library seems blindsided by the controversy: it hadn't actually ignored the East India Company's opium trade, and the company was all but dead by the time the Opium Wars began. And who would have guessed economic history could arouse such passions...