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...decorated veteran and former Reaganite who got his start in politics by running Barry Goldwater’s student operation during “Mr. Conservative’s” 1964 presidential bid. Until recently, Goyette was a drive-time radio host at a Philadelphia Clear Channel station. But when President Bush began moving the country towards war, he questioned Bush’s rationale—and found his show moved from one of the best slots in radio to one of the worst. Thanks to his recently signed five-year contract, he was free...
...work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe sent him down the path of architecture (art is still his avocation--his Manhattan town house and his villa outside Zurich are filled with his abstract steel sculpture). Shortly after finishing his architecture studies he won a design competition for a train station in Zurich, and because he had taken the unusual step of getting a second degree in engineering, he soon found himself being sought out to design bridges throughout Europe, a job that ordinarily falls to engineers and rarely to architects...
...forced to resign three months later. On Thin Ice NORTH POLE Russia plucked to safety 12 of its scientists stranded on a disintegrating ice floe 700 km from Norway's Spitzbergen island in a high-risk helicopter rescue mission. Most of the structures of the North Pole-32 research station sank when the ice pack on which it was built started to break up. The scientists, none of whom were hurt in the incident, had been left with just two buildings for shelter and five days' food supply. MEANWHILE AT THE U.N. ... A Bad Day for Diplomacy Embarrassed U.N. officials...
Alas, as is often the case when Dartboard hopes that things aren’t as ridiculous as they appear, she was again let down. According to the Associated Press, an “anti-abortion group, Pro-Life Waco…ran ads on a Christian radio station urging people to boycott Girl Scout Cookies because of the ‘cozy relationship’ between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood...
...fire that permanently disfigured his face, his family’s immigration from Estonia to America—to become a celebrated designer of famous buildings all over the world. Then he lost it all, falling deep into debt and finally dying of a heart attack in a train station restroom. Thirty years after his death, Kahn’s son has created a tribute to him on film, glorying in his architectural triumphs, but supplementing the laurels with an honest assessment of his personal failings. Farrah Fawcett wasn’t one-tenth as interesting as this...