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...Guggenheim Museum. Christian de Portzamparc, who won the Pritzker in 1994, designed the LVMH tower on New York's 57th Street. So when Gucci took over Yves Saint Laurent, creative director Tom Ford knew that the first task was to bring the brand's stores up to world-class par. Ford, who designed the Gucci stores with the help of William Sofield, enlisted Sofield's help for YSL. The first prototype opened in December in the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. The second, shown here, opened at the South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California last month. But these stores...
...have a strange situation in the lecture halls of many science classes: an overly qualified student body and an under-qualified pool of teachers. What results is largely a product of the drive of many of these science students; they pick up the slack. When given a sub-par teacher, as they often are, they make up for the inability of teachers to impart knowledge by reading supplementary books, studying with other students, getting tutored, going to a section-leader’s office hours—whatever it takes. The drive toward knowledge and the almost infinite reserves...
...charges last month by agreeing to pay a $141,000 fine. Still, the scandal has left the Christian Democratic leadership in crisis. Angela Merkel, the new cdu leader chosen last year, has been trading insults with two rivals who covet her job: Friedrich Merz, the cdu's leader in par-liament, and Edmund Stoiber, head of the party's longtime Bavarian ally the Christian Social Union. Erwin Teufel, the cdu leader who has governed in Baden-Württemberg since 1991, complained last month about the "devastating image" the leadership feud was projecting on his own campaign...
Throughout his life, but especially toward its end in 1883, that lion of early modernism, Edouard Manet, loved to paint still lifes. Even in his portraits, his arrangements of things--books, bottles, crockery, flowers, food--are given a prominence that nearly puts them on a par with people. His art wasn't dominated by still life, as Cubism would be; but the inanimate has a large and vital presence in his work. That much is evident from the beautiful show at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, curated by George Maunet, "Manet: The Still-Life Paintings." What one might...
...getting late - or early - and still Fai hasn't found a worthy target. After much deliberation, a few swaying laps around the tables, he concludes that the three girls left dancing in the club aren't up to his standards. "They are all ju par [pork chops]," he says. "Let's go smoke...