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...vote of confidence came from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, a long-established nonprofit organization concerned with the care and preservation of Italian art. Six of the world's leading conservators of Italian painting (including John Brealey and David Bull, the head painting conservators at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Washington's National Gallery of Art), having inspected the frescoes at the foundation's behest, reported in an open letter that the "new freshness of the colors and the clarity of the forms on the Sistine ceiling, totally in keeping with 16th century Italian painting, affirm...
Have no doubt: those places will be rebuilt, although the effort needed for such smaller cities as Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., may be different from the kind required for New Orleans, with its sizable downtown and wide metropolitan area. There are times a city suffers a disaster so enormous that it never recovers. Think of Pompeii. Or Chernobyl. But cities tend to be durable things. They eventually shake off the effects of even the worst catastrophes. A decade after the Great Fire of 1871, Chicago had a booming economy and a population of half a million people, up from about...
...globetrotting celebrity, it's nice to give a child a sense of place, especially on another continent. BRITNEY SPEARS told Elle magazine that she's mulling the name London Preston if the tyke due to exit her much on-display belly this fall is a boy. Spears' metropolitan moniker would mimic choices by David and Victoria Beckham, who call their boy Brooklyn; Bono, whose daughter is Memphis; Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin, whose lass is Ireland; and Michael Jackson, whose princess is Paris. If Spears has a girl, she says, she'll call her Addison Shye. Addison is a county...
...through the ticket barrier. A leaked statement from one of the surveillance officers described how Menezes had been restrained before he was shot. "We need to look very, very closely at the police shoot-to-kill policy," says former Deputy Mayor of London Jenny Jones, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority's complaints committee. "At the very least, people have a right to know exactly what it is." Menezes' family lashed out at police. "For three weeks, we have had to listen to lie after lie about Jean and how he was killed," Menezes' cousin Alessandro Pereira said...
TIME How are you expanding your footprint these days? K.K. We now have a national franchise with an emphasis in California, Texas, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia--those high-growth states--and rounded out with the Northwest and large metropolitan areas like New York, New Jersey, Chicago and Denver. The primary expansion we're doing today is to put new stores into those existing markets...