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...Karadzic declared himself the new leader of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, with Sarajevo as its capital, and instituted his plan to "ethnically cleanse" Serbia. "More the foreman than the architect [that distinction belonged to Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic] of the worst massacres in Europe since World War II," as TIME's Massimo Calabresi wrote in 2008, Karadzic allegedly ordered the siege of Sarajevo, which killed at least 10,000 people, and the slaughter at Srebrenica in 1995, which killed more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys. (See pictures from 2006 of the last Albanian...
...stage was all set, but the star failed to appear: the trial of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader and alleged architect of the savage 1992-95 war in Bosnia, started without the defendant at the international war-crimes court in the Hague. As prosecutor Alan Tieger gave his opening statement on Oct. 27, listing the 11 counts of war crimes, including two counts of genocide, against Karadzic, the defendant's seat remained empty, a pair of earphones sitting idly on the desk in front...
...many years the city has been trying to put together an ambitious downtown arts district, an ensemble of museums, theaters and an opera house designed by marquee-name architects. And last weekend Dallas celebrated the opening of two of the final big pieces of the puzzle. One of them, the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, is the product of a collaboration between the Dutch architect-polemicist Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus of REX Architects. The other, the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, is from the mighty office of the British architect Lord Norman Foster. The buildings...
...Kamachiku This family-run noodle shop, set in a century-old granary with a modern addition designed by architect Kengo Kuma, overlooks a soothing Japanese garden. Arrive early to avoid disappointment: the handmade udon is so good, it's gone by 1:30 p.m. on weekends. Tel: (81-3) 5815-4675, 2-14-18 Nezu...
...Fountainhead, an epic novel chronicling the struggles of an architect named Howard Roark against conventional values, was her breakout work. In her race to get the sprawling 700-page book to press, she began taking the amphetamine Benzedrine to fuel her efforts. "Rand used it to power her last months of work on the novel, including several 24-hour sessions correcting page proofs," writes Burns. The book brought Rand financial security and fame...