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David Letterman used to do a segment on his show called "Brush with Greatness," in which an audience member recalled a fleeting encounter with a famous person--say, bumping into Joan Rivers on an elevator. American Son (Henry Holt & Co.; 294 pages), the much anticipated memoir of John F. Kennedy Jr., by Richard Blow, feels a little like an extended literary version of this, as Blow unearths every last encounter with his subject, as if to say, I knew him; I really, really...
...Flier replicates his grandpa's epic transatlantic flight. As a follow-up, he's planning to have his son kidnapped and then join the Nazi party Losers ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Singer booed for showing up late and lip-synching at a concert. For those keeping track, this is the "hubris" segment of Behind the Music ROBERT BLAKE Jailbird actor denied bail on killing charge, sued by murdered wife's children. And why do we care? He played a TV detective in the '70s MADONNA Material Girl's film pulled from Cannes for awfulness. Just when you think it's safe...
...bargaining strength is leading to its long-term weakness as well. "IG Metall has established Germany as a high-wage, high-quality production center," said Michael Fichter, executive director of the Center for Labor Relations at the Free University of Berlin. "It is less able to deal with the segment of the market that doesn't fit that. The fact that companies are transferring jobs to other countries is an omen." Though membership soared after German reunification in 1990, IG Metall's long-term trend is downward. Between 1991 and 1997, the union lost a million members...
Along the first path, the Scottish play is being staged in the open-air courtyard of Hilles Library (a choice to which much space was devoted in last week’s first segment of this two-part feature...
Therein lies the beauty of Cruz and Ortiz’s designs: they would be reasonably mundane but for some small tweak that makes them interesting. Their Huelva Bus Station is representative of their spare geometry; it has an aerial outline of a triangular segment cut out of a circle. On two sides the exterior follows that contour, but on the third, the exterior wall curves inwards to create a fluid curve out of an originally straight line. As vehicles enter the terminal, they follow a twisted path around a static circle spoked by bus bays for arrivals and departures...