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...restrictions on what she could do at her June party: the museum drew the line at using candles - she had to make do with battery-powered votive lights instead - and it also turned down her request to hold the event in a painting gallery. "They do that at the Met," she gripes. Still, Cason Thrash gushes about Loyrette, his embrace of American-style fund raising and his attempt to open up the place to a wider audience. "Henri's a visionary. He totally gets it," she says. "It's time for the Louvre to spread its wings...
This time the disillusionment started in a neighborhood pub. I met up with a friend there, one with whom I hadn’t had much contact in a while. At first, all was well. The beer was cheap! It was good! My friend was also growing a beard! But then the empty pint glasses started to add up. Something in me turned, and nothing seemed right. This friend—a smart, funny, creative young guy—was still in Portland, living with his parents. As far as I could tell, he wasn’t doing much...
...summer, New York is mainly governed by an unbearable presence of heat. This has been brutally punctuated by torrential downpours of rain. Black clouds ahead, I hurried through a Tribeca street, vainly attempting to speed ahead of the menacing roars of thunder bellowing from New Jersey. My worried eye met an amused server behind the cupcake display in a café. I faltered, looked behind me, and obeyed her brief beckon to rescind my futile mission. Of course, she got some business, but she also knew that I would not out-maneuver the elements, and she nodded approvingly...
Curious and incredulous at the macabre implications, I frequently asked about these elusive valuations and talked to many people who had heard about them or knew someone who knew someone who had heard about them. Yet I never met anyone who had actually seen the official figures, much less helped compile them. In many meetings, FAA officials argued as if they had those figures on the tips of their tongues--"losses," they would explain patiently, from the small number of crashes and even smaller number of attacks on planes just did not justify vast airline investments in safety and security...
...territory's first-ever law against racial discrimination. The bill was in the works for more than a decade, the product of tortured haggling over clauses and amendments and tireless campaigning by members of the city's vocal civil society. Yet the passage of this landmark legislation has been met by anything but elation. Its original proponents see it as too weak, while some suspect the Beijing-backed government would rather it had not passed at all. "It's very shameful," says Fermi Wong, director of the minority advocacy group Hong Kong Unison. "There has been a lack of commitment...