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FRANK GEHRY Los Angeles is often dismissed as a cultural wasteland, but Gehry may have changed that with his design for the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the new home of the L.A. Philharmonic that was unveiled in October. With its curvaceous exterior and acoustically adroit interior, Gehry's building bestowed on the city an important architectural landmark and proved that L.A. residents actually do go to the symphony...
...hills a few hundred miles from Shanghai that exports some of the world's sexiest lace bras. On his shop floor, surrounded by 200 young workers outfitted in pink kerchiefs and aprons, Yang points to the wall on which he has taped a laminated list of rules issued by Walt Disney Co., with which Asset Underwear has a contract to make clothing featuring Disney characters. The list prohibits, among other things, indentured servitude and "slavery." Yang thinks that's funny. His laborers come from villages across China to work 8-to-10-hour days for up to $120 a month...
...Stephen M. Walt, academic dean of the Kennedy School of Government and Belfer professor of international affairs, said that he was not convinced the capture will have a significant effect...
...Walt said that he did not expect Saddam’s capture to affect American politics...
...issue was never Saddam himself,” Walt said. “The question is whether capturing Saddam is going to affect the situation in Iraq...