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...Whittaker's 12-hour day normally finishes. But as the paper's national chief of staff, his mobile phone stays on, and tonight he rings in at about 11.30 p.m., checking with Dore that the start of the British Open on his television means that a picture of Greg Norman the paper's been chasing since late afternoon is on its way. It's a long time since 7 a.m., when Whittaker's daily immersion in news begins: 11 papers online at home over breakfast, perhaps a call from editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell who's out walking the dogs...
...Jeffersons; in Los Angeles. After years in the theater, she made her movie debut as the loquacious Tillie in the 1967 interracial love story Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. But her defining role came in 1975, when she moved into a "dee-luxe apartment in the sky" in Norman Lear's groundbreaking comedy about an upwardly mobile black family. For 10 years she provided the steadying foil for Sherman Hemsley's peppery George and in 1981 became the first African-American actress to win an Emmy. Her acceptance speech began: "At last...
...decided to do it after seeing the first Spider-Man. ("That was the first time since 9/11," he says, "that I saw tall buildings without cringing.") You get a grasp of what ingenious engineering is all about from the London headquarters of the insurance firm Swiss Re, designed by Norman Foster. Even before it opened in April, it was known as the gherkin because it rises against the sky like a plump green pickle. (And yes, nobody has missed the more phallic interpretations.) It too has a triangular steel trusswork, a structural necessity that doubles as a twirling surface pattern...
...paintings, like the posters, propagate the myth of a land of joy and plenty. In one, a pair of beaming workers quaff foamy beers beside a table strewn with apples and grapes, while a foundry glows behind them. Others have a Norman Rockwell sweetness to them: an adolescent girl bids farewell to her younger brother as she heads off to military camp; an elderly railway worker strolls along a posy-lined track beside an idyllic stream...
...sound like an obvious motivational tool, but not every beer boss is willing, as Miller Brewing CEO Norman Adami is, to tap a keg and chug a beer at a corporate gathering in front of several hundred cheering workers. There are probably even fewer at his level who are given to earthy battle cries like "If you want to run with the big dogs, you can't piss like a puppy" or "Never come to a gunfight with only a knife." But Adami surely needed all the fighting spirit he could muster when, almost 18 months ago, his longtime employer...