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...momentary fame was secure, his long-term reputation was unstable. To rigorous Modernists, there was something slack and accommodating about his work. The swelling lines of his TWA terminal at what is now JFK International Airport - weren't they a bit too delicious, too far from the square-shouldered Modernist grid? The bright blue exterior of his IBM facility in Rochester, Minn. - since when did austere Modernists do big color...
Thank you, Brian Williams, for your wonderful tribute to the late Walter Cronkite [Dec. 28--Jan. 4]. Every news junkie in America, young or old, has a Cronkite memory that has helped shape the way he or she understands the news. From his onscreen breakdown after JFK's assassination to his jubilation at the fall of the Berlin Wall, Cronkite's deep emotional connection to the world events he covered will always be appreciated and admired...
...Awlaki's phone number. The FBI questioned the cleric but didn't have enough information to arrest him. In March 2002, he left the U.S. for Yemen. He made one final trip to the U.S. in October of that year and was briefly detained at New York City's JFK airport, but the FBI's attempt to arrest him on the charge of giving false information in a passport application came to nothing. After leaving the U.S., he spent nearly two years in London, returning to Yemen in 2004. He taught at a radical university before being arrested by Yemeni...
...exhibition of works connected to royal courts, which he gave the unofficial but catchy name Things for Kings. Very soon he negotiated both the acquisition of the ancient Temple of Dendur from Egypt - over the opposition of Jacqueline Kennedy, who wanted it installed in Washington as a memorial to JFK - and the construction of a giant glass-enclosed addition to the museum to house...
Despite earlier projections of a December opening, the 14 JFK St. space that previously housed Z Square café will likely remain empty until early spring, according to Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association...