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...them in different ways. All the while it draws those views into a complex fabric of references to the city. So by narrowing and widening the routes, for instance, the designers create false perspectives that recall airport landing paths, an illusion they've underlined along one stretch with a string of low-rise "runway" lights. This is a park that doesn't try to separate nature and civilization. What it does instead is lead you to reflect on how they penetrate each other just about everywhere you go. Maybe somebody should have told Thoreau that if he couldn...
...dragged on and become less black-and-white, so has 24. In 2003 it featured a conspiracy to provoke a Middle East invasion using bogus WMD evidence. (Yellowcake, anyone?) Last year's villain was the President, who had his predecessor assassinated. In the new season, a string of suicide bombings has led, chillingly, to federal "detention centers" for Muslims, much like in the liberal pre-9/11 movie The Siege...
...When physicist Lisa Randall spoke about string theory at a Radcliffe donor dinner, Faust gave “an introduction that sounded so scientifically literate that someone who really knows the field thought it had been written by a scientist,” Grosz recalls...
...push the Iraq analogy too far: the string of murders that has gripped New Orleans is not on par with the current horrors of Baghdad. So far, Nagin has resisted calls to cut loose his Rumsfeld, New Orleans police superintendent Warren Riley. And it's hard to imagine President Bush standing in silence before thousands of angry constituents, many calling for his head, the way Nagin did Thursday...
...people including American, British and Turkish officials. The leftist group was dismantled in 2002 as Greece cracked down in the run-up to the 2004 Olympics. Its suspected leader and other leading figures have been imprisoned in Greece's maximum security prison since 2003. More recently, however, a string of copycat terror cells have emerged, targeting government buildings and foreign business interests...