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...butcher's feelings toward the former Palestinian leader are contradictory. Omar has heard the tales of the corruption that dogged Arafat and his entourage, of the missing millions in aid money. But he remains loyal to Arafat and insists, along with his friends, that I tour a museum in the camp whose showpiece is a photo display of Arafat in his many guises, from bug-eyed terrorist to statesman. Omar rushes me past a photo of Arafat shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; he thinks Arafat gave away too much to the Israelis, as do many Palestinians still...
...last link to a vanished era. Seeing Dingell hobbling along the halls of Congress on his cane or cupping his half-good ear to hear a colleague is like spotting an elderly mammoth alive in the natural-history museum. As long as he's not extinct, he's formidable. Dingell comes from a time when Congress did big things, like Medicare and the Voting Rights Act, as a matter of course. Key Congressmen were known as "bulls," and they didn't look to the White House for permission slips or marching orders. Dingell's first oath of office...
LAWRENCE KRAUSS, a Case Western Reserve University physicist, in a sarcastic appraisal of Kentucky's new Creation Museum, which presents the Bible's version of Earth's history--that the planet was created in a single week just a few thousand years ago. The museum opened on May 28 as protesters rallied outside...
...Buffalo, about 20% of the items for sale are new pieces--mostly shoes, jewelry and hosiery--purchased by headquarters and distributed to each outlet. "It gives our stores a more contemporary, avant-garde feel," says Kerstin Block, the Swedish-born founder of Buffalo, who originally hoped to be a museum curator before opening her first store in Tucson, Ariz., in 1974. Since no store gets more than two or three of the same thing, buyers are none the wiser. (New items get purple tags, however.) At the Brooklyn store, the average selling price for any item is $16, with...
...Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., is a serene neoclassical building from 1933. A stately terraced lawn with a sculpture garden pours down from the grand south entrance. Nine years ago, when the museum's director, Marc Wilson, and his trustees decided it was time to expand, they began a search for architects. Eventually they whittled the list down to six. Nearly all the finalists proposed building on the parking lot at the building's rear, a location that wouldn't interfere with its grand façade. Only Steven Holl dared to suggest an addition that would...