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...city, along the Seine at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, and artfully hidden a world-class museum in it. His Musée du Quai Branly is perhaps the most radical expression yet of Nouvel's self-proclaimed pride in being "an architect of context." Its northern face, shielded from the road along the Seine by an immense transparent glass screen, exactly echoes the river's bend; on the west, it seamlessly abuts five late 19th century Hausmannian apartment buildings with a grace that leaves their courtyards intact. And along the southern exposure, where the public will begin entering...
...Society collected $24 million last year in songwriters' royalties from live, ticketed pop events in Britain - more than double the amount collected in 2000. The eFestivals website lists over 300 festivals of all genres for 2006 in Britain, compared to just 62 in 2001. Feargal Sharkey, former singer with Northern Ireland's pop punks the Undertones, and now head of the British government's Live Music Forum, says, "While other sections of the music industry have gone through some growing pains over the last couple of years, the live-music industry has just been getting bigger and more successful...
...letters Shortz reads aloud in Wordplay. Another correspondent is polite but perplexed: "This kvetching thing that's going on, I can't seem to get a grasp on it. 'The kvetcher's cry': 'Oy vey'? I don't get it. How is it used? Is it a Northern thing?" But most puzzlers I know are pleased with his work. More than that: he has given fresh life to their daily preoccupation...
...move again. In Netiv Ha'asara, she and her husband, Amnon, built a lovely home and raised three children. Until last year, they planned to ease into retirement while the children took over their agricultural business. The conflict was never far away, but Israeli settlements and troops in northern Gaza buffered them from the worst of it. A house for Ilan, 29, was under construction. Amir, then 24, lived with his girlfriend, Dana, 22, behind his parents' place, in the same thin-walled structure the Ragolskys inhabited when they first arrived...
...after Hamas declared an end to its unilateral cease-fire. Though Israeli officials might scoff at that statement - given the involvement of Hamas leaders in many previous rocket attacks against Israel from inside Gaza - the prospect of Hamas resuming terror attacks and Israeli plans for a broad offensive in northern Gaza suggest that a new wave of violence and political instability may be building...