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DIED. DENNIS WEAVER, 81, gangly cowpoke actor best known as the limping sidekick in Gunsmoke and as the titular Manhattan cowboy cop in the 1970s series McCloud; in Ridgway, Colo. The prolific Weaver had leading roles in 40 films, including Orson Welles' Touch of Evil and the 1971 highway thriller Duel, directed by an up-and-comer named Steven Spielberg. A committed environmentalist, Weaver spent the past 16 years living in an Earthship--a 10,000-sq.-ft. house made of tin cans and tires...
DIED. OWEN CHAMBERLAIN, 85, Nobel-prizewinning physicist at the University of California, Berkeley; in Berkeley, Calif. Chamberlain worked on the Manhattan Project and later apologized to the Japanese for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. In 1955, he and fellow Manhattan Project alum Emilio Segre identified the antiproton, the negatively charged mirror of the subatomic particle, a discovery that sparked still unresolved debates about the composition of the universe...
...badges, decorative metal clips attached to the laces. To ensure that these "quickstrike" releases maintain the allure of exclusivity, makers skip large retailers and instead sell to boutiques like M.I.A. Skate Shop in Miami's South Beach; Sportie L.A. on Melrose Avenue; and A Bathing Ape, a shop in Manhattan's SoHo district owned by Japanese designer Nigo, who himself owns 3,000 pairs of classic kicks. Miamian Gregory Fago, 41, who has more than 270 pairs of shoes, spent $5,000 on 34 versions of Nike Airs from the 1990s that were rereleased in January. "When you walk into...
Budnitz, 38, a restless polymath from Berkeley, Calif., works from a Manhattan office that looks like a cross between a designer workshop and Peewee's Playhouse. "I've discovered something that uses all the things I've done," he says. That's no small feat. At 17 he was helping his father's colleague write risk-analysis software for nuclear power plants; by 21 he had an art degree from Yale. He got inspiration for his toys from artists in Hong Kong and Japan...
...were out for blood. And at this point, let’s lose the goose metaphor. This was an academic 9/11, this was an act of spiritual assassination, an assault on free speech, intellectual inquiry, and ideology-free academic standards aimed at the heart of American scholarship. We are Manhattan now; and we cannot rest from this mental fight. If we shirk it, then William F. Buckley, Jr., is right that it’s better to be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the faculty of Harvard...