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...accident. The French capital is still largely drawn along the imperial lines laid down by Parisian prefect Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who had very clear ideas of just what a Parisian building ought to look like. Now that classic picture is being challenged by Haussmann's 21st century successor, Socialist Mayor Bertrand Delanoë. He believes that Paris, one of the most densely populated major cities in Europe, just might need skyscrapers. In recent months he has deliberately kindled a debate about lifting rules in place since the 1970s that limit the height of new buildings...
...memory of so many bad buildings has made a lot of Parisians almost pathologically opposed to more. "The very idea of building in Paris is seen as wrong and condemnable," sighs Paris architect Bernard Reichen. After the Tour Montparnasse went up, mayor Jacques Chirac and his conservative successor Jean Tiberi figured they had rightly read the public will by keeping a strict limit on building heights. As Blet and other opponents of towers point out, the height restrictions haven't cut Paris off entirely from architectural innovation: consider Jean Nouvel's glass-walled Institut du Monde Arabe (1988) along...
...terrorists are after [Musharraf], and he sounded very confident that his security forces would be able to deal with the threat," Bush said after a telephone conversation with Musharraf. If that confidence proves unfounded, those prosecuting America's war on terror will have a new worry: whether Musharraf's successor will conclude that taking on Islamic radicals is too hazardous to one's health...
Vest, who is the university’s 15th president, announced his decision at the quarterly meeting of the board of trustees, saying he will remain until the end of the academic year or until his successor is appointed...
Mubarak, who is 75, completed his speech last week after a 45-minute break. A former fighter pilot and longtime squash player, the President is in relatively good health. But many Egyptians doubtless hope that to prevent future chaos, he will take the time to pick a suitable successor. --By Scott MacLeod and Amany Radwan