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Just over two weeks ago, Queen Elizabeth II officially opened Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 - a light and airy structure that seems to be made solely of stone, steel and glass. She praised the $9 billion terminal as "a triumph of ambition, commitment and collaboration" and boasted that it would put Heathrow back where it belonged, "at the edge of global travel." Function aside, pamphlets touted the ergonomic design of check-in desks and the choice of sinks in the washroom facilities. Terminal 5 wasn't merely an airport extension, officials wanted the world to believe. It was a monument...
...course, that habit may be more international than he thinks. Mariam Salehe, a college student from Frankfurt, Germany, arrived at Terminal 5 at noon only to learn her flight home would leave at seven. Bathed in light filtering from the glass ceiling panels and standing near a sleekly designed check-in desk, she took little comfort in her surroundings. "It doesn't matter that it's beautiful," she says. "I just want...
Jesus in a New Light...
Andrews' golden ticket out of the squalor was her freakish singing voice: pure, light and agile, with a tremendous range and perfect pitch. By 9 she was out on tour with her mother and stepfather. It was the dying days of vaudeville, and she belted out her high Fs on sticky, splintered stages to halls full of cigarette smoke, but by 13 she'd been asked to perform for the Queen, and by 17 the family mortgage was in her name. By 19 she was on Broadway in The Boy Friend...
...martyrdom also forced onto King's dead body the face of a toothless tiger. His threat has been domesticated, his danger sweetened. His depressions and wounds have been turned into waves and smiles. There is little suffering recalled, only light and glory. King's more challenging rhetoric has gone unemployed, left homeless in front of the Lincoln Memorial, blanketed in dream metaphors, feasting on leftovers of hope lite...