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...especially. On a number of fronts, Beijing is less attractive than Toronto and Paris...
...Ignoring widespread protests from human rights activists concerned that granting Beijing its Olympic dream will signal acceptance of its repressive political regime, IOC officials gave the nod to anxious Chinese officials, at 10 p.m. local time, choosing Beijing over chief rivals Toronto and Paris. Istanbul, Turkey and Osaka, Japan had also placed bids...
...Museum of Modern Art. Philip Johnson, now the gray imp of American architecture but then MOMA's architecture curator, devoted important shows to Mies and connected him with wealthy patrons. One was Phyllis Bronfman Lambert, who later became the founding director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Toronto and has now organized the Whitney show. In 1954 she persuaded her father, then chairman of the Seagram company, that Mies should design its new corporate headquarters...
Burden, 58, puts bloated thoroughfares on what he calls a "road diet." In cities as large as Las Vegas, Toronto and Seattle and hamlets as small as Sammamish, Wash., he has trimmed lanes and filled the space with bike routes or a grassy buffer between the asphalt and the sidewalk to ease walkers' stress. Of course, motorists tend to react to Burden as they might to a jackknifed manure spreader directly in their path. "They say ,'We already have a traffic problem,'" says Burden, "'and now you want to take lanes away...
...Antonio Davis, now a forward on the Toronto Raptors, does not deny that he once went to the Gold Club. But it was too loud, too dark and too packed. He says he left. "All these allegations are false. I love my wife dearly and it's very hurtful for her," Davis told TIME. "I've understood kids are looking up to me." When the father of six-year-old twins heard the allegations, he called his mother, mother-in-law and his lawyer, then, on Wednesday, filed a $50 million lawsuit against Cicignano. Still, he worries that his name...