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...have his readers made sense of Ved Mehta?and, in doing so, learned something about themselves? In The Red Letters, as in much of Continents of Exile, Mehta's prose is so polished that readers skate smoothly upon it?without ever breaking the surface, falling in, and getting lost in his life. What's missing from these memoirs, oddly enough, is evidence of the traits that define him. As a journalist for the New Yorker, Mehta refused to be limited by his blindness; he traveled on assignments with guides who described how things and people looked, and he insisted...
...backdrop for much of what appears in "Archilab" is the mid-20th century triumph of consumer capitalism and what was then its house style, classic Modernism. By the late 1950s the iconic Modernist building?an unadorned box, made of glass and concrete or steel, typically perched upon an empty plaza?was springing up in every part of the developed world. It was a style that could produce individual works of great beauty, but in the aggregate could transform whole city centers into visual and spiritual dead zones...
...General Kofi Annan; in New York City. Clinton, along with fellow former President George H.W. Bush, has been making appearances at President George W. Bush's behest to raise private tsunami- relief funds in the U.S. As leader of the U.N.'s reconstruction efforts, he will also be called upon to help mediate conflicts with rebels in the two hardest- hit countries, Indonesia and Sri Lanka...
...shift has been particularly potent on the power play, striking 16 times with a man advantage. The Crimson has been assigned the second fewest penalty minutes per game in the nation this season—only Northeastern has fewer—but neutralizing the line will hinge, in part, upon whether Harvard can avoid succumbing to the contest’s predicted ugliness and taking unnecessary penalties...
...Pistone, a Mafia-infiltrating ex-FBI agent. But Rimington, 69, is the biggest name in law enforcement yet to give fiction a go. She began working for MI5 in 1965, when, as the wife of a British diplomat in New Delhi, she was hired as a local office clerk. Upon her return to London, she started spying on Soviet spies in Britain--and keeping her profession a strict secret. "Back then," says Rimington, "people tended to say they worked for the ministry of defense, but that invited questions like 'What do you do there?' So I had a variety...