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Maybe a little too hard. The new Union Station is the work of the Rouse Co., developer of the charmingly urban Harborplace in Baltimore, the charmingly urban Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston, the charmingly urban South Street Seaport in New York and several lesser-known charmingly urban shopping-and- eating entities. These profitable developments are distinctly funk free, but they are not ugly. If it takes an artificial heart to save a dying downtown, as Harborplace probably saved Baltimore, why complain? The problem is programmed quaintness: Ghirardelli Square was a revelation 20 years ago, a copy or two elsewhere were...
...Beach, England was the richest, most powerful, most industrially sophisticated nation in the world. Progress was the nation's goddess, in whose honor was staged the Great Exhibition of 1851, a festival of English wealth and material advancement. While England celebrated itself, Arnold was on his honeymoon in the seaport town of Dover, writing a brief poem that eventually would be remembered by many more people than would remember the Great Exhibition, indeed would become the most anthologized poem in English. But Dover Beach was not a celebration of the age; it was a lament, a complaint and a prayer...
...commonplace is violence in the southern Mindanao seaport of Zamboanga City that Mayor César Climaco, 68, tallied the killings on a billboard outside the municipal hall. The mayor, a leading critic of the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, last week became such a statistic himself as he was shot in broad daylight in the center of town. The assassin escaped. Inevitably, some Filipinos blamed the killing on the Marcos regime. During the past two months three opposition figures in the south have been murdered, and many suspect that Mayor Climaco right-wing military elements were involved...
...months, relative calm had settled over Lebanon under a peace plan adopted by its warring factions and backed by nearby Syria. The peace fell apart last week. In the northern seaport of Tripoli, a smoldering feud between a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim group known as Tawheed and the pro-Syrian Arab Democratic Party, whose militiamen are sometimes called the Pink Panthers because of their raspberry-colored fatigues, erupted in the worst violence so far this year. Before a truce was called at week's end, at least 100 people had been killed and more than 200 wounded, most of them...
...Shanghai (pop. 11.9 million) was once the wildest seaport in the world, but the Communists outlawed all its traditional sins when they captured it in 1949. About 30,000 prostitutes were shipped off to rehabilitation centers to learn another profession, and thousands of opium addicts were detoxified and put to work. At the same time, however, much of the reformed city's commercial life also withered. Only in the past few years has Shanghai regained the right to launch private busi nesses, attract foreign investments and keep some of the profits. The physical city is much the same...