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...both Krens' babies. The Bilbao Guggenheim was Krens' first step toward turning the Guggenheim into a world brand, a pioneering move in the museum business. Designed by Frank Gehry and completed in 1997, it was also the world's first piece of blockbuster museum architecture since Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic 1959 Guggenheim building in New York. It showed that Krens could leverage the Guggenheim name and its collection while working with a local government keen to advance its economic and political interests. According to Bilbao authorities, the museum received 1.3 million visitors in its first year, and the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American In Venice | 6/22/2003 | See Source »

...late-20th century, shared another: unwritten color bars. May Holdsworth, in her history of Hong Kong expatriate life, Foreign Devils, cites Anne Baker, a Eurasian whose white husband had to resign from the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club in the 1950s upon marrying her. Also quoted is Michael Wright, a former government architect, who remembers that at the Hong Kong Club "there was nothing in the rules to say that Chinese couldn't join. It had simply been understood that you didn't put a Chinese up for membership... [The fear was that] after 20 or 25 years, the club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Club Mix | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...airplane turns 100 years old this year, with the anniversary of the Wright brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., in 1903. Almost as old is the deadly plane crash: the first airplane fatality took place in 1908, claiming the life of an Army lieutenant named Thomas Selfridge. Somewhere between flying and crashing, and combining the thrills of both, lies the terrifyingly dangerous sport of competitive aerobatics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loop Dreams | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...decreased pressure to go into a certain set of high-paying jobs has also led OCS to see an increase in the number of seniors thinking critically about their plans instead of just following what Wright-Swadel calls “the lemming effect” into consulting or I-banking...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coping With The Downturn | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...October, Hannah E. Wright ’06 had not received a single paycheck for her work as an IM referee...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Instead of Paychecks, New System Brought Frustration | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

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