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...back to us, transfixed by the sight. And things are complicated a little further by a second window, on the right, that lights up the mother and child and leaves a brilliant splash of gold on the brass bed warmer hanging above the mother's head, like a displaced halo...
...book, which was a No. 1 London Times best seller earlier this year and has been climbing several U.S. lists since being published here last month. Thomas More is not hagiography. Yet here is the paradox: it has the power of a second, secular canonization, establishing More, sans halo, as a martyr for a lost cosmic connectedness, the exemplar of a once commonplace mysticism that Ackroyd has evoked and mourned in recent work...
About six miles from the Eiffel Tower, construction could begin soon on another outsize and controversial millennial project: a $42 million Earth Tower rising on wooden struts, bisected by restaurant and exhibition space and crowned by a floral halo of metallic petals. At 650 ft.--a height that will require passage of a special law in parliament--it would command stunning vistas comparable to those of the Eiffel and Montparnasse. Meanwhile, the Pompidou Center, with one of the biggest collections of 20th century paintings, is scheduled to reopen its doors at midnight Jan. 1, 2000, after being partly closed since...
...SEEING BLUE Because the eyes contain an enzyme similar to the one on which Viagra works in the penis, about 3% of users develop temporary vision problems, ranging from blurred vision to a blue or green halo effect...
...smudge on Kofi?s halo? The New Yorker magazine today reported that U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan had been made aware of the planned genocide by Hutu nationalists in Rwanda in 1994, and had ordered U.N. peacekeeping forces not to intervene to stop the slaughter. The unflappable Annan has not denied the report, but says the U.N. acts within parameters set by the political will of the major powers. TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell agrees: ?Most people at the U.N. believe that Kofi had no choice in Rwanda. He would have needed enough troops and the major powers? willingness...