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...statelier pace, more like a grandfather clock. Set in Provence, it tells three stories from three eras that unfold in parallel: a 5th century Roman sophisticate faces the fall of his empire; a Renaissance man stares down the Black Death; and a French classicist watches as his country is overrun by the Germans in World War II. The thread connecting these three men is an ancient philosophical manuscript that each man encounters, but the real bond among them is that they face a common paradox. Civilization has made them men of learning, but in order to save it they must...
...defined not so much by what it is, but what it isn't: overdeveloped and overrun. It remains a quiet seaside community with an authentic, provincial flavor?street-side Thai eateries instead of Pizza Huts. But it's no bush-league backwater. In fact, no beach in Asia can claim quite the bloodline. Dotted with palaces, steeped in history, Hua Hin celebrates the grandeur of old Siam. You feel it with every creak of the teak floorboards at the old Railway Hotel, built at the Queen's command as a guesthouse for royal parties. Nowadays, it's been reborn...
...rare man in local government. He not only thinks good architecture and design matter, he also makes fine buildings happen. As the leader of Manchester City Council, he runs a municipality that was once rich in 19th century commercial architecture - buildings with Victorian arches and polychrome brickwork - but became overrun with ugly concrete buildings in a misguided redevelopment effort in the 1960s and '70s. Now, just in time for the Commonwealth Games, Leese has shown that Manchester could overcome that legacy of drab functionality with the help of the best architects he could find - in Manchester, Britain and indeed...
...probably eaten by sharks. He was the main spokesman and one of the leaders of Abu Sayyaf, a guerrilla group that became notorious for using kidnappings in pursuit of its goal to carve out a Muslim state in the southern Philippines. President Arroyo also announced that the army had overrun four Abu Sayyaf camps on the island of Jolo. SOUTH KOREA Border Battle At least four South Korean soldiers were killed and 19 injured when a North Korean naval vessel sank a South Korean military speedboat on patrol in the Yellow Sea. North Korean officials said that shots were fired...
...then autism research took a badly wrong turn. Asperger's keen insights languished in Europe's postwar turmoil, and Kanner's were overrun by the Freudian juggernaut. Children were not born autistic, experts insisted, but became that way because their parents, especially mothers, were cold and unnurturing...