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...true identity, is not automatically Oedipus Rex. Bourne, who needs no sleep or food or pee breaks, no downtime at all, he's closer to the Terminator, a national-security murder machine. Or, to give Bourne a literary benefit of the doubt, one of those questing creatures from a Philip K. Dick story: a robot who dreams he's human and struggles to determine if the dream is true...
...Administration was concerned about a change in tone. If anything, the klieg lights on the U.S.-British relationship could mean that little will change on the surface even if there is a shift behind closed doors. "Everyone will be looking for those small signs," says the Brookings Institution's Philip Gordon, author of Allies at War, adding that Brown "will do everything he can not to reveal them...
...victim to be decapitated; his head was left outside a Yala school to scare teachers and children. At another Yala village, insurgents shot dead and set alight a Buddhist health official, then detonated a 10-kg bomb buried beneath the road. The blast injured 12 people, including TIME photographer Philip Blenkinsop, four other journalists and three emergency workers...
...carry the quirky spirit of their original collector; how personal taste can determine the path of art history. Seen in this light, Standing Woman is not only one of the most refined examples of Giacometti's attempts to sculpt mankind's "lightness" of being. Says Peggy Guggenheim Collection director Philip Rylands: "He also represents Peggy's enabling capacity. She empowered artists just by being there." The New York-born niece of Solomon R., Peggy Guggenheim moved to Europe with her young family in the '20s and, mixing in mainly avant-garde circles, decided to open her own gallery...
...description "party planner" didn't begin to do justice to the galas, extravaganzas, grand balls, fetes and blowouts that Philip Baloun orchestrated for the rich, famous and socially stratospheric. Baloun, who attended the American Floral Arts School in Chicago while still a teenager, moved to New York City in 1976 to be a theater director. But instead of working on Broadway, he wound up creating glittering theatrical magic for the soirée set. Baloun invented a life-size Hungarian town square for financier George Soros' 70th birthday. For a New York City welcome for Prince Charles, Baloun conjured...