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Kiwi advertising guru Howard Greive is on the phone from Wellington. He's not talking about the Toyota HiLux ute, whose award-winning "bugger" campaign he helped create, but about the higher echelons of the international art world. And, more specifically, that celestial plane where, every two years, they come to worship: the Venice Biennale. "Have you seen that little QuickTime?" he asks. "I must send it to you." Within seconds, the short movie teaser for New Zealand's Biennale party on June 8 is zipping across the Tasman. Fashioned by Greive and vodka sponsor 42 Below, the clip uses...
...Numbers 8 Number of minutes the U.S.'s terror-alert level was raised to red last Wednesday, when an errant plane entered restricted airspace in Washington, D.C. 35,200 Number of people evacuated from the White House, Capitol and adjacent office buildings before the all-clear was sounded...
...Number of minutes the terrorism-alert level was raised to red last Wednesday after an errant plane entered restricted airspace in Washington
However, when it comes to focusing on 1948, which the book promotes as so important, Morrow stumbles. In that year, Kennedy’s sister Kathleen died in a plane crash. Kennedy, then a congressman, concealed the severity of his own illness from the public. These episodes clearly affected Kennedy, but so did many other setbacks—such as his brother Joe Jr.’s death and his sister Rosemary’s lobotomy. The lasting impact of 1948, for JFK at least, is not so clear...
...more efficiently, has opened bidding beyond U.S. borders--and foreigners are piling in. The Colt handgun, first used by the U.S. military in the Mexican-American War of 1846, has been replaced as standard-issue infantry gear by an Italian-designed Beretta. A Brazilian-made Embraer surveillance plane will soon patrol battlefields for the Army rather than a Gulfstream jet produced in Savannah, Ga. Britain's BAE Systems contributes avionics to the F-16, F-18 and F-117 bombers. Rolls-Royce, the British aircraft-engine maker, does more business with the Pentagon than it does with the British Ministry...