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...featured in the latest James Bond movie and has mayors everywhere clamoring for their own "Bilbao." As a consequence, any number of designs that once seemed too radical to imagine, much less assemble, are being readied for construction. One of them is Daniel Libeskind's tumbling addition to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which looks like a cross between a building and an avalanche. Another is the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati by the Iranian-born, diagonally inclined British architect Zaha Hadid. Several of the most spectacular works in progress are by Gehry, like his annex...
...During his teen years, Egoyan worked at the ritzy Empress Hotel in Victoria, an experience he often likens to the art of filmmaking. "Both the hotel business and the film business are concerned with creating and sustaining illusions," he explains. "In a hotel, you make up a room and create a place that is supposed to be reminiscent of a home. And a hotel staff function much like actors do, putting on a performance of serving people." Indeed, the world of hotels functions prominently in two of his films--Speaking Parts and The Adjuster. Although being a busboy...
...Junior Victoria G. Fox, a Wellesley student spending a semester at Harvard, says that Harvard has all the information that students could ever need--the difficulty is in putting that information...
There was something about the last man off the 6 p.m. ferry from Victoria, B.C., to Port Angeles, Wash., that didn't seem right to U.S. Customs inspector Diana Dean last Tuesday. She threw a couple of routine questions at him, and he choked, claiming to be a French Canadian named Benni Noris. When officials opened the trunk of his rented Chrysler, they found what looked like the contents of a bombmaker's shopping cart: 118 lbs. of urea; two 22-oz., three-quarters-full jars of nitroglycerine; 14 lbs. of sulfate; and four timing devices consisting of Casio watches...
...Conover Brendan G. Conway John E. Connolly Andrew D. Cooper Macarena M. Correa Daniel A. Cousin John F. Coyle Angela K. Crenshaw Melissa K. Crocker Rodrigo A.C. Cruz A. Maximo Cuellar Adam C. Culbert Susan M. Curry Carina P. Curto Matthew R. Daniels Elizabeth M. Darst Sriram P. Das Victoria P. de Menil Nathan D. Dean Simon J. DeDeo Adeyemi K. Delbridge Rashid A.H. Delgado Matthew F. Delmont Roanak V. Desai D. Lawson DeVries Stefanie E. De Santis Joseph P. Di Pasquale Jennifer L. Diebel Ravi K. Dixit Chris-Tia E. Donaldson Elizabeth K. Dotson-Wesphalen Mara J. Dowdall Jesse...