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Koolhaas has promised that the two structures, his first completed projects in the U.S., will provide a "stark contrast" yet "merge completely with the casino experience." One is an exhibition space that boasts on its ceiling (which opens like shutters to admit light) a campy version of Michelangelo's Creation from the Sistine Chapel. The other museum is a Guggenheim collaboration with Russia's great Hermitage that will feature shows drawn from both institutions. Koolhaas is one of the world's most influential architects, a man brimming with ideas about how cities are shaped by shopping, entertainment, the pleasures...
...public life. Macedonia's Slavic majority sees that proposal as a reflection of an agenda to ultimately split Macedonia, which they believe is the ultimate objective of the rebel National Liberation Army. And the trashing of Western embassies and a McDonalds outlet in Skopje earlier this week was a stark reminder that ordinary Macedonians no longer trust Western mediation efforts...
...That is a very stark message, given that export manufacturers are about the only thing that has fed Asia's economies for the past three years. If China takes this vital source of nourishment away, and Asian countries don't clean up their economies so that new industries in new sectors can develop, their only hope might be to wait for another speculative bubble. Anyone got a hot property...
...websites is also growing. Egghead.com sent a chilly wind through cyberspace late last year when it disclosed that hackers had broken into its system and may have accessed millions of credit-card numbers from its database. (It later found that no credit cards had been compromised.) It was a stark reminder that financial data are only as safe as every website you share them with...
...conservation as a means of dealing with energy shortages. Top Bush aides did not see the speech until the day he delivered it. Even though Bush and Cheney are in complete agreement, the difference in tone between Cheney's blunt speech and Bush's conciliatory one last week was stark. By last week Bush aides were happy to have regained control of the energy-policy rollout from Cheney's office. Plans to have Cheney hit the road to help sell the plan were scrapped. Energy Secretary SPENCE ABRAHAM is scheduled to do most of the airport shuttling. Until last week...