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Eight white Roman pillars anchor the building, while wood-paneling of a mahogany tone outlines the horseshoe shape of the interior...
...mathematics concentrator from Elk Grove Village, Ill., Johari will be enrolling in a one-year masters program in mathematics at Cambridge. Primarily interested in the interactions between pure and applied mathematics, he said that he hopes to use his experience in England to learn to shape university mathematics education...
...100th anniversary of his birth next year, Henry R. Luce will be featured on a postage stamp. His iron-jawed visage, so familiar to those of us at TIME, will adorn No. 57 of the Postal Service's ongoing Great Americans series, honoring men and women who have helped shape the nation's history. "Henry Luce set the standard by which publications are judged," says Postmaster General Marvin Runyon. "His passionate belief in the importance and power of the written word and his unmatched devotion to excellence created a legacy that endures today...
...second fantasy, Where the Sea Used to Be, sketches a young man, a rough-and-tumble oil geologist and aviator, who is obsessed with oil--not the money it can bring but the ancient, hidden stuff itself. He can sometimes see, almost clearly, the shape and shadows of a deep-buried oil deposit that once was an inland sea. He meets a beautiful young woman, takes her, literally, in his airplane while scouting for oil, and sorrows that he doesn't have the knack of falling in love with her. The journey of the tale is his effort to teach...
...conference table with TONY BLAIR and his political brain trust, they worked together on ways for "New Labour and New Democrats to develop policies in a complementary way that are a model for other center-left parties around the world," says Peter Mandelson, the media guru who has helped shape Blair's image...