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...Marco Rosin is a little nervous about uprooting the lady of the house. In this case, he's not referring to the legendary art patroness Peggy Guggenheim, whose body lies buried next to those of her beloved Lhasa Apsos-including Cappuccino, Peacock and Sir Herbert-in the garden of her Venice palazzetto. Instead, on this warm June afternoon, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection registrar's charge is Alberto Giacometti's 1.5-m bronze Standing Woman, 1947, whose elegantly elongated frame appears like an apparition a few meters from Guggenheim's grave, where it usually guards the benefactress' Byzantine garden seat...
...through the earth with their bare hands in search of loved ones. Survivors were few. "My family is gone and my house is gone too," said 40-year-old Rosin Madombe, whose two small children drowned before she could get them out of her now-submerged house. "What am I supposed to do?" With hurricane season only a few months off, relief organizations rushed to assist the poorest country in the western hemisphere. "A few months ago we couldn't move because of security," said Guy Gavreau of the U.N. World Food Program. "Now we can't move because...
...first knew I wanted to be a performer in the kitchen of my Aunt Mary's house in Santa Ana, Calif., when I was seven. At my mother's request, I sang Rosin the Bow in front of her and her twin sister. It was so powerful to sing that old folk song and be showered with love and affection and enthusiasm and encouragement by both of them. That was an event. That was my moment. From there on, when people asked, I didn't say baseball player or cowboy, I said I wanted to be an entertainer. Soon after...
...Rosin, for instance, worked in Japan for three years with the Sony Corp...
Robert Dreyer, one of Rosin's co-founders, has worked at Intel on its Pentium processor for years...