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...coalition paid al-Sadr scant attention until two weeks ago, when an American helicopter tried to knock down a Shi'ite banner from a telecommunications tower in Sadr City. Al-Sadr was able to mobilize tens of thousands of Shi'ites in Baghdad's largest street protest since the end of the war. Even so, a Pentagon official in Iraq says, the CPA has not yet got the full measure of al-Sadr. With his vision of Islamic rule in Iraq, his deep hatred of Americans and his rapidly growing army, al-Sadr is, according to this official, "the most...
...Tower Rubble Causes Trouble Two years after its 41-story Manhattan tower was damaged in the Sept. 11 attacks, Germany's Deutsche Bank is still feuding with insurers over the bill. Deutsche says the Liberty Street building, about 100 m from where the south tower of the World Trade Center stood, is a total loss; the bank insists on being reimbursed for its full $1.7 billion value. But insurers Allianz of Germany and France's Axa are balking, prompting Deutsche to file suit in the New York State Supreme Court. The insurers, who together underwrote 60% of the risk...
...want independent experts to assess whether the tower could be restored for less money. Deutsche is making "a cynical attempt to leverage the lingering image of Sept. 11 into more dollars," the insurers' court filing says. The public row is even holding up Manhattan's plans to redevelop the ground zero site. Deutsche has also filed suit against New York City authorities for putting fuel tanks near its building, which it alleges contributed to the damage. Whatever the outcome of the suits, Deutsche is leaving town anyway, moving across the river to New Jersey. Turkish Pop Culture A new Turkish...
...build a city is, of course, what every architect dreams of. Adjaye is getting there, one building at a time. Earlier this year the borough of Tower Hamlet in London's rough-edged East End broke ground on his largest project to date, a library so up to the minute--with its cafes and retail space, escalator atrium and digital displays across the exterior walls--that the lackluster term library has been put aside. The official name for this place is the Idea Store. Directed to create a library that would be as user friendly as a shopping mall, Adjaye...
...cafes, stoically sipping espresso in the white, noon sun. Everything in me wanted to take action, hoard bottled water, build underground shelters. But only the slightest adjustments were made: wine and candles were taken outside to the Champ de Mars, and family dinners were held beneath the Eiffel Tower. Knowing how to live apparently means knowing that nothing will last and everything has happened before. But by the end of last week, as the old stone houses lost their ancient stores of cool and the night air grew as viscous as the afternoon's, even the Parisians began to twitch...