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...rely on spleen, others on lofty remoteness. Megalogenis is a data fiend and a diviner of patterns and types. Few know their way around a statistical time series like he does; no one can match his ingenuity in figuring out what to do with it. When Megalogenis describes the rise of the McMansion, for instance, you get acute social observation, street-cred cultural criticism, political nous, personal anecdote, ethnic punditry and a savvy dissection of changes in capital gains tax. There's a sense that Megalogenis-a former Canberra Press Gallery fixture who's never lost touch with the pulse...
TIME One year ago, you presented a mock magazine article with the headline FLYING HIGH: AMD'S AMAZING RISE TO THE TOP. Where does March 3, the day Intel cut its sales forecasts, fit into that...
Foster's tower, his first sizable project in the U.S., rises from within a six-story brown masonry base that dates from the 1920s. That's when news paper baron William Randolph Hearst commissioned the architect and stage designer Joseph Urban to produce a low-rise headquarters for Hearst's growing empire. The intention was that a taller addition would be constructed later, but the Depression intervened. For nearly eight decades, the Deco-flavored base stood alone. In the late 1990s the Hearst Corp. decided to keep the old building but to hollow it out and erect a new tower...
Foster also has a 65-story office tower planned for the World Trade Center site, not far from where the Freedom Tower is set to rise. His design for that project is still a work in progress. But the prospect that the good Lord might do something at that contested site is welcome news. It means that at least one tall building there may be worth looking...
...against the folksy Allen, who is also mulling a run for President in 2008. Allen's continued support for the war in Iraq and for President Bush has hurt his approval ratings, while Webb, a former Marine and an early, articulate critic of the war, has seen his numbers rise. University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato says both score about 40% in polls. "Jim Webb is George Allen's worst nightmare: a war hero and a Reagan appointee who holds moderate positions," says Sabato. "Allen tries to project a Reagan aura, but Webb already...