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...quick to point out, Harvard pays other taxes and has done much in the way of bringing prestige and business to Cambridge. But PILOT payments are a good investment in positive relations with our neighbors. Recent fights over Harvard development—including, notably, the defunct plans for a tunnel under Cambridge Street and a modern art museum on the Charles River that never materialized—demonstrate that both the school and the city lose when politics turn ugly...
...Princess Diana were on their way to his opulent 10-room apartment overlooking the Champs-Elysees. But the couple never made it to Fayed's place. At 12:23 a.m. the speeding Mercedes in which Diana, 36, and Fayed were riding crashed into the 13th pillar of the Alma tunnel on the right bank of the Seine River. Fayed and the intoxicated driver died at the scene. Diana was declared dead at 4 a.m. at Paris' Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital...
...people in Malaysia four years ago. On March 21, WHO announced that intensive efforts among 11 laboratories had produced the first potential diagnostic test for SARS, which up until now could be identified only by its symptoms. "This is not just some light at the end of the tunnel," says WHO virologist Dr. Klaus St?hr, WHO is coordinating the laboratories' efforts. "This is a real ray of sunshine...
...Frenchman. In conversation his jagged English lurches between profound existential lows ("Sometimes I do not know if the show will work--I do not know how it could") and exuberant, absurdist highs ("That character, he is the moon!"). "There's no light at the end of the tunnel with Franco," says Mia Michaels, A New Day's choreographer. "Most directors I work for say, 'This is what I want--this is how we'll get it.' He's just like 'Whatever you want to do, do it. Create what you feel, and we'll find magic in that...
...Atypically for museums in the region, the Hall of Opium is much more than a collection of dusty artifacts bearing labels. Interiors at the museum complement the subject matter so as to profoundly affect visitors' moods. The entrance to the museum is through a long, winding tunnel, which is illuminated to show off twisted and tortured human forms sculpted into its walls. Other rooms are bright, airy contemplative spaces. The result is an informative and innovative look at an age-old social ill. What can Thailand do to top it? A museum of the world's oldest profession...