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...Wrestling with the challenge of creating a big enough space amid spatial and monetary restrictions, Endoh struck on the idea of using a balloon shape for the building. The result: a surprisingly spacious two-family house with just 335 sq. ft. of floor space...
...this stage, almost no one is talking about a rapid, large-scale troop drawdown. Inside the Pentagon, officers privately caution that troop levels could even rise if Iraqi security forces don't shape up as expected, if the insurgency grows more fierce or--of greatest concern--if civil strife evolves into full-fledged civil war. In fact, a senior Pentagon official tells TIME that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld asked his planners last week to make sure they have a contingency option if things go very badly in Iraq next year...
...before Conan’s tenure at the multiple-Emmy-winning cartoon, Harvard alums helped develop and shape the show. Al Jean III ’81 helped craft its first episodes, transitioning “The Simpsons” from a sketch on the Tracy Ullman Show to a cartoon sitcom...
...shape shifting, Madonna has always been most comfortable when she's dancing--or singing about dancing ("You can dance, for inspiration," she proclaimed with adorable plasticity on Into the Groove back in 1985). After her dour 2003 album, American Life, she has migrated back to her safe place, and it's nice to hear her strutting again. Almost all of Confessions feels like I Love New York--exuberant, campy, shameless and cool. The songs flow into one another with no regard for things like track numbers (the album is premixed, as opposed to remixed), and nuggets of dance history--from...
Cheney, according to friends and subordinates, sees himself as an ber-staffer whose mission is to shape and promote the President's agenda, even at the expense of his own popularity. Lately, with the Vice President making a signature issue out of opposing new restrictions on the treatment of suspected terrorists, the price has been steep. In one poll, Cheney's approval rating slipped into the 20s, and a former White House nemesis has gained traction on the issue. Republican John McCain, the Senate's most famous prisoner of war, has won strong bipartisan support...