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...Garbo's early retirement was a gift to her fans, as if she wanted to protect the image of her screen beauty before they saw it crumble into mere middle-aged attractiveness. But she must also have known that her standing was secure. She saw that in 1941; we realize it today, as the world celebrates her centenary. There's a knowing, sumptuously illustrated book (Mark Vieira's Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy), a tribute in films and photographs at New York City's Scandinavia House, a monthlong retrospective of all her extant Hollywood films on Turner Classic Movies...
President Bush was seated in the White House Situation Room, watching military and disaster officials beaming in from the Gulf Coast on the giant screen of his secure video- teleconferencing system. It had been nearly a week since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, ripping gashes in the Superdome and swamping homes up to their eaves. Bush, more fidgety than usual, was hearing a jumble of conflicting reports about the number of refugees in the Convention Center and the whereabouts of two trucks and trailers loaded with water and food. Furious, he interrupted and glared at the camera transmitting his image...
...Designed by architects Guiliana Salmaso and Goetz Maximilian Keller, each of the rooms comes with an unusually well-appointed kitchenette including such flourishes as champagne flutes and Asian-accented porcelain. Living areas come stocked with seductive Linari room fragrances, gender-specific toiletries by La Bottega, flat-screen TVs, DVD players and DSL high-speed Internet access. The hotel also boasts an Aveda beauty salon, a "wellness center" and a restaurant-bar serving Italian-Asian fusion cuisine. Says T?nzer of the $14.6 million investment: "It's a declaration that the neighborhood has finally arrived." We couldn't agree more...
...thing that was wrong may have been that right and wrong had jumped their tracks. For all the scorching images of armed thugs making off with sneakers and wide-screen TVs, the larger reality wasn't as simple as the President's call for "zero tolerance"of looting. Was it wrong to take a bottle of milk from a store when your baby was sobbing and there was no way to pay for it if you tried? When cans of food are scattered in the debris, does taking them amount to theft, or salvage? At one point, police with guns...
...Katrina gained strength, researchers at L.S.U.'s Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes ran the numbers through their storm-surge models. Around 7 p.m. Saturday, on the giant screen looming over the Emergency Operations Center in Baton Rouge, they posted the sum of all fears: New Orleans would go under. Everyone knew what that meant: a major water rescue of untold thousands. The next morning, with the storm less than 24 hours away, the team talked to federal health officials about the potential for disease from the rising waters. At midday Sunday, according to TIME...