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...seem dorky. He tosses dead bodies down the world's largest spiral staircase while James hangs back, horrified, clutching an urn full of cocaine (which most people would have left in the car). Charlie also has a quickie with a prostitute, snorts some of said cocaine on the Eiffel Tower and shoots a woman in the head at a dinner party. Yet still, the conviction of his cool eludes him. You don't realize how gifted with cool Willis actually is until you watch Travolta trying...
Anyway, these three professors—who tweet about a range of topics related to their respective areas of expertise—have made the effort to leave the Ivory Tower and communicate with the world beyond the gates of Harvard. Here’s a little rundown of each of these Twitter accounts (along with a recent tweet...
...Drama of Powerful Forms Saarinen was a Modernist by birthright. His father Eliel was a 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...
...Lunch on local rabbit specialties in the underground burrow of Café Mazai, at 199 Sovietskaya Street, tel: (996-312) 66 50 81. Then haggle with a taxi driver for the out-of-town journey to Burana Tower. Take in the breathtaking views from atop this ruined 11th century minaret, and experience twilight descending over the steppe. After dark, the State Opera and Ballet Theatre, tel: (996-312) 66 18 41, showcases Western and local productions for as little...
Still, the White House is guaranteed about an hour tonight with all eyes on its star at center stage, when the Commander in Chief can tower over his opponents. If there is to be an Obama comeback in early 2010, it begins on Wednesday night. Here are the five metrics and tea leaves that will determine success or failure...