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...prevent this, I suggest creating a list of interior spaces to be preserved for posterity. The list need not be a long one--perhaps one or two dozen rooms. Moreover, the list's provisions should not rule out alterations or even interventions within these rooms, only that their overall character and proportions be preserved. Candidates for this list might include Memorial Hall, the main reading room in Widener, the dining halls of Dunster and Eliot Houses, the common room of Straus Hall and the main staircase and lobby of Sever. I recommend the formation of a panel to compile this...
...profited more from the killing frenzy than Arkan. Since the paramilitaries from Serbia were paid mainly in what they could steal, theft provoked many atrocities. Arkan reportedly had a price list for "liberating" a town: say, 2 million to 3 million German marks ($1 million to $2 million), plus all the loot from the police station and bank, plus right of passage for 30 cars, plus everything his men could carry. The Tigers' plunder attracted "weekend warriors" from Belgrade's underworld who would pillage for profit. Arkan brags he does not consider himself a war criminal. An indictment...
...that Yankee Stadium is far more accessible by both car and subway than the new stadium would be, never mind that the neighborhood is actually quite safe on game days, never mind that 2 million fans a year can still imagine Mickey Mantle gliding across the outfield. The wish list of one megalomaniac seems to take precedence over the welfare of millions. Instead of giving the billion to George, why not sprinkle some of it over the school system and some of it over the Bronx, and renew New York City? As it is, Yankee Stadium...
...designed headquarters stands as a Zen fortress guarding entry to the city's sparkling business district. For years the building has been show-biz ground zero, a hot zone where Ovitz--routinely referred to as "the most powerful man in Hollywood"--built up the town's most imposing list of talent. His masterful, softly menacing style, along with his courtship of nontraditional clients like Coca-Cola and Credit Lyonnais, transformed the old stereotype of the talent agent as a hustling flesh peddler into that of a sleek ninja visionary...
...full list of 1996-97 Nieman Fellows includes: Cohen; Lee; Read; Robert Blau, an editor/reporter at the Chicago Tribune; Mark Jaffe, an environmental reporter, and Marjorie Valburn, a staff writer, both at The Philadelphia Inquirer; Laura King from the Associated Press Tokyo Bureau; Terri Lichstein, a producer at ABC News; Myra Ming, a senior news producer at KTTV in Los Angeles; Deborah Steward from the Associated Press Moscow Bureau; Robert Vare, an articles editor at The New Yorker; and Paige Wilson, a reporter at The Charlotte Observer