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...debate is more than philosophical. Even before the recent Minnesota bridge collapse, commuters in crowded corridors from Atlanta to northern Virginia knew that our infrastructure needed investment and that capacity hadn't kept pace with demand. It hasn't helped that many state politicians have been just as reluctant as Congress to raise gas taxes. Or that thanks to the surging price of materials like petroleum and steel, the cost to build highways has jumped 43% since the beginning...
...Except, of course, to disappear. Before filming his small part in 2008's He's Just Not That Into You, he hadn't acted in a movie for 2½ years. For Hollywoodland, the last movie in which he starred, his role as a faded former icon was a considerable change of pace. Tellingly, his name is not at all prominent on the Gone Baby Gone posters...
...Puppies group has moved onto other restaurants, picketing the businesses and homes of chefs like David Ansill who recently removed foie gras from his menu at his restaurant Ansill after protesters hounded his customers and staff and leafleted his neighborhood for months. "When I talked to him he hadn't slept in 15 days," says foie gras distributor Daguin. "The acts of the protesters are nearly terroristic," she says. Said Ansill wearily: "It wasn't worth it. I caved...
...Corbijn's relationship with U2 stretches back 25 years and has always gone beyond the role of photographer. For the cover of The Joshua Tree, he took the band to the Mojave Desert. The tree "fascinated" Corbijn, says Bono, so "he just asked us to stand against it. We hadn't figured out he was giving us the name of what would be one of our more important albums...
...others. "Everyone says Nathan Katz's sales were voluntary, that he collaborated," says Cees van Hoore, a reporter for the Haarlems Dagblad who broke the story of the Katz claim last week. "But no one can explain why Nathan fled to Switzerland. What would have happened if he hadn't sold them...