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...than 250,000 people turned up to celebrate the rebirth of a British icon. The spring cleaning of the RFH, the postwar centerpiece of the 1951 Festival of Britain, represents the final piece of the puzzle in establishing the south bank of the Thames?from the London Eye big wheel down to the Design Museum at Shad Thames?as one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in the capital. Multiple bridges make it accessible to more than 15 million Londoners and visitors, and the Southbank Centre boasts 10 restaurants on its 21-acre (8 hectare) riverfront site. Here's a guide...
...reports from the field are usually wrong, what apparently happened was that mortar rounds landed in the vicinity of the convoy. The Blackwater shooters assumed they were under attack. When a car bore down on the convoy, they made a second wrong assumption: a suicide bomber was behind the wheel. Things happened fast, and the Blackwater team fired on the car, killing a child and two adults. We can second-guess Blackwater all we want, but the ground truth is Iraq is a shoot first and ask questions later...
...charge--that guy is in the car, but we just don't let him drive. That's something Springsteen told me once, and it really works. He'll be talking in your ear in the backseat, but just don't let him get behind the wheel. And you can be proud of it. I've talked to the people that raised me, and I've thanked them for giving me a lifetime's worth of material. I was talking to Bono in Australia last year, and we mentioned something about family histories, and he was like, Wow, they really gave...
...Still, the plan hammered out by Maurizio Prato, Alitalia's third chairman in the past year, may contain a corporate logic that goes beyond all the apparent wheel-spinning. The company, no one doubts, must be sold. The 5,000-pound vulture in the room is named Air France-KLM, which sat out this past year's round of bidding. Alitalia's initial cuts (modest as they are) to both personnel and fleet, its search for some hanging-on cash, and above all its shifting its hub southward all make it a more attractive regional partner for Air France following...
That was when the driver of an overheating four-wheel drive stopped to request some water. The supplicant was Rajiv Gandhi, son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and soon to be India's leader himself. "Rajiv Gandhi was like a ray of hope for India," says Singh. "We found that we were on the same wavelength very quickly." He was later repaid for his water when Gandhi pushed the Haryana government to ease the commercial-development restrictions. Their two-hour conversation that day, says Singh, was "the birth of the entire urban-development policy of India today...