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...region on the banks of the River Thames, the white, 80,000-square-meter, tent-like structure - designed by famed architect Richard Rogers - is one of the few manmade objects visible from space. Opening to great fanfare on Dec. 31, 1999, on the cusp of the new millennium with Queen Elizabeth II and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair in attendance, the Dome was initially considered a failure. Sure, it lured 6.5 million visitors to its themed Millennium Experience attractions during its year-long run - many more than any other U.K. attraction - but the government had naively promised to draw...
...rule. An increasingly independent Supreme Court will decide in coming days if Musharraf's amnesty for Bhutto is constitutional. At the same time, the court is weighing the legitimacy of Musharraf's own landslide victory in the presidential election in early October. The upshot is that Pakistan's homecoming queen faces a host of challenges in coming months that will be difficult, perhaps impossible, to surmount...
Those schoolboy days ended at age 17, when Stoppard went to work for a newspaper in Bristol. He covered the police beat and routine local news, but he also got to interview visiting celebrities--New Orleans jazz musicians, British movie-glamour queen Diana Dors. "I was so thrilled being a reporter," he says, "because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet." After a few years, he moved to London, where he continued to write reviews and celebrity profiles. In 1960 he talked his way into a trip to New York...
...raising so many (irrelevant) questions, “Gimme More” is aptly titled. One thing the video decidedly doesn’t offer is any suggestion of a farewell. It’s a shame, but even worse, it’s boring. She was our queen. We watched her crash and burn. Now let’s walk away from the wreckage and move on. —Nayeli E. Rodriguez
...time since school that I’ve really started learning and getting involved,” she said in the interview. Portman, the FINCA International Ambassador of Hope and co-chair of the organization’s Village Banking Campaign, along with Jordan’s Queen Rania Al-Abdullah, said that microfinance could work successfully even in a “for-profit” environment. “One of the biggest debates is about whether it should be for profit or not for profit,” she said in her speech...