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...Internet on Monday, schools, offices and businesses sent people home early and the megalopolis was brought to a standstill by traffic jams on Monday afternoon as frightened citizens rushed home. By evening, the city streets were eerily empty as people cowered in their houses. "This was a landmark event for Sao Paulo in particular and for Brazil as a whole," said Sergio Mazina, vice president of the Brazilian Institute for Criminal Sciences. "Nothing like this has ever happened before...
...Forgive Lopes for being slightly neurotic. The secluded California landmark, set amid five hectares of palms, redwoods, primroses and bougainvillea in the canyons abutting Beverly Hills, has been an international icon of luxury since it opened in 1946. Its guest registry has included an assortment of Rockefellers, Marilyn Monroe, Howard Hughes and Grace Kelly, as well as Prince Charles, Oprah Winfrey and Julia Roberts. For many glitterati, the Bel-Air serves as a second home. "I've never managed a hotel where the clientele is so loyal, has such high standards, and feels so proprietary about it," Lopes says...
DIED. Lawrence Lader, 86, journalist turned abortion-rights activist, whom feminist Betty Friedan called the "father" of the movement; in New York City. He became fascinated by the issue while writing about birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger, and his landmark 1966 book, Abortion, was cited by the Supreme Court in its 1973 ruling to legalize abortion. He co-founded the pro-choice group now known as NARAL; lobbied for the manufacture of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 in the U.S.; and targeted abortion opponents in lawsuits, including an unsuccessful challenge of the IRS for giving tax exemptions...
...negative feedback about the venerable property's $20 million upgrade, which is now fully complete. "Overwhelmingly, the patrons said the new look was in keeping with the image," he recalls. "So I was able to sleep at night." Forgive Lopes for being slightly neurotic. The secluded California landmark, set amid 5 hectares of palms, redwoods, primroses and bougainvillea in the canyons abutting Beverly Hills, has been an international icon of luxury since it opened in 1946. Its guest registry has included an assortment of Rockefellers, Marilyn Monroe, Howard Hughes and Grace Kelly, as well as Prince Charles, Oprah Winfrey...
...director Gerald Fox manages to pry open the can of steely reserve the director-photographer normally encases himself in, and in the process opens up not only Frank (who will be 82 in November) but his work. It deserves to be explored by a wider audience, whether for the landmark book of pictures The Americans or Frank?s beyond-warts film of the Rolling Stones, the 1972 Cocksucker Blues...