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...DIED. PIERRE KOENIG, 78, pioneering California architect who shocked suburbia with Modernist glass-and-steel frame homes; in Los Angeles. His cantilevered Case Study House No. 22, below, remains one of the most photographed residences in the world and has been featured frequently in films, advertisements and TV shows. A San Francisco native, Koenig graced southern California with more than 40 eye-popping Modernist homes, including his own magnificent, multilevel Brentwood abode...
With just one out, freshman Stephanie Steel belted a hit to centerfield for an RBI double as Princeton took a 1-0 lead...
Imagine a job where outsiders write daily performance evaluations read by thousands living near your giant, steel-encased cubicle. You have an office that, during work hours, invites throngs of unqualified guests to sit beside you, question your judgment, even scream that you don't deserve a livelihood. "A stockbroker doesn't have 80,000 people sitting behind him just waiting for a mistake," says Jim Fassel, whom fans serenaded with "Fire Fassel!" chants during his final weeks as head coach of the New York Giants last season. "It can drive you crazy." From head coach to head case...
Jean-Louis Borloo has made a career of tackling lost causes. As a Parisian lawyer he rescued failing businesses. In 1988 he revived a bankrupt soccer team. And as mayor of Valenciennes from 1989 to 2002, he resurrected the moribund former steel town by revamping neighborhoods, attracting a Toyota factory, building a theater, and planning a regional tram whose first rail will be laid this week. Can this miracle worker save France's embattled conservative government after the party's rout in last month's regional elections? It was evidently with that hope in mind that President Jacques Chirac plucked...
...Thomas Pynchon). One year, a splendid season of every Samuel Beckett play cued a longish essay; the next, the packaging of musical shorts from the 30s and 40s. And there was the week when all the grownups were on vacation and I assigned myself a page on a Hawaiian steel-guitar virtuoso of the 1920s. For goodness? sake, why? Because I liked...