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...jobs. Mass transit systems got an upgrade, too. Saint-Etienne, for instance, laid on a new downtown tram line for locals. Officials also polished their cities' cultural and public spaces. Local government funding in Bilbao, for one, helped transform a derelict patch of riverside into a cultural landmark, with the voluptuous-looking Guggenheim Museum at its center. (See pictures of The Louvre in Paris...
...International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda established the precedent that rape warfare is in fact a crime of genocide, in its judgment on the extermination of an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis at the hands of Rwandan Hutu militias. It was a landmark addition to the term?s legal definition, and a judgment that could be important in future International Criminal Court proceedings related to the current situation in Darfur. Many observers have recounted stories of rape being used systematically as a weapon in Sudan for the purpose of ethnic cleansing, and the International Criminal Court is expected to decide...
...also a problem solver, concerned with human scale, structure and function. His life, his legacy and the story of the Sydney Opera House are so intertwined that it is almost impossible to separate them from one another. His astonishing 1957 design was pure poetry. It was a landmark then and remains...
...most influential figures in Washington, D.C. by last February. It was then he decided—happily—to endorse Sen. Barack Obama for the presidency. Almost 10 months later, Kennedy had the opportunity on Monday to speak on the significance of Obama’s landmark election. He described the events of November 4, a night still alive in the memories of the ebullient hundreds who filled Cambridge’s streets just one short month ago, as “not just a culmination, but a new beginning” for America. Who better than this particular...
...week after 10 terrorists stunned Mumbai, tens of thousands of the city's residents descended on the main site of the attacks. They crowded the streets around the Gateway of India, the landmark arch the faces the historic Taj Mahal hotel, where gunmen had holed themselves up for three days. Amid the press of bodies were a few scattered pockets of space and light - either candle-lit shrines left by the public in vigil or camera crews surrounded by the vocal and vociferous crowd. They called for an inchoate assortment of things: the heads of bungling politicians...