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...celebration embodied Yemen's strong traditions of honor and hospitality and its emerging red flags. As a foreign guest, I was given the one bed in the entire house to sleep in. Family members young and old slept shoulder to shoulder, huddled in blankets on the floor. Although there was little food to share, meat was always heaped onto my section of the communal plate. The ceremony was interrupted by rolling blackouts. Like most other things in Yemen, the guests explained, electric service has worsened this year. Much of the country is increasingly lawless and desperately poor; reserves of water...
...Finnish architect whose radically clean-lined entry in the 1922 competition to design the Chicago Tribune Tower took second place in the contest but first place in history. For a rising generation of architects, that unbuilt proposal was an arrow pointing straight to the future and a strong influence on the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center. The fame it brought the elder Saarinen in the U.S. persuaded him to emigrate the following year from Finland to Chicago. A few months later, his wife and children, including his precocious 12-year-old Eero, joined...
...President on Wednesday may have reassured Americans that the state of the Union is "strong," but, just the week before, a group of Vermont secessionists declared their intention to seek political power in a quest to get their state to quit the Union altogether. On Jan. 15, in the state capital of Montpelier, nine candidates for statewide office gathered in a tiny room at the Capitol Plaza Hotel, to announce they wanted a divorce from the United States of America. "For the first time in over 150 years, secession and political independence from the U.S. will be front and center...
...huge fan of both Beck and O'Reilly. "They're honest and they're real, and they report everything. They don't leave things out." Her husband lumbered around in a black T-shirt with "F___ You Obama" emblazoned in large, white capital letters. Why such strong sentiments? "I don't think he's good for the country. I think he's going to ruin it," he says...
...Harvard, we’re long-term investors,” University spokesman John D. Longbrake said. “We have a very strong track record...