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...Senate hearings open this week, Washington's campaign-finance scandal has come down to this: Republican Fred Thompson wants to know if Huang, the architect of Asian fund raising and the must-see Democrat for ethnic-Chinese moguls like the CP trio, was helping funnel foreign money into Democratic coffers and sending back U.S. government secrets in return. In tracing the money and telephone connections of Huang's fund-raising world, Thompson's investigators want to know: Was he a spy for China in the guise of a Democratic moneyman? Did he funnel money from Overseas Chinese-led companies...
DIED. WILLIAM TURNBULL JR., 62, iconoclastic architect whose abstract structures complemented their rugged West Coast environments; of undisclosed causes; in Sausalito, Calif. Turnbull's noted Sea Ranch condominium, with its barnlike simplicity, was designed for the rigors of the California coast...
...shipping and handling. The request is forwarded by your Congressman to the Flag Office of the Capitol, where an average of 350 such specially sought Star-Spangled Banners are prepared for hoisting every day. The flags are run up for less than a minute each by Capitol Architect workers on three special poles on the House side roof (out of photo-op range), typically between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. Since the program began in 1937, some 2.4 million banners have fluttered at the behest of citizens. The biggest flag-flying day? July 4, of course, when more than...
...painter, though you shrug that off. That's O.K. But if you should become an artist, ignore the critics. Some precious few critics have an artist in them, but most are a desperate, shriveled lot who have found a way to touch art without making it. The half-nuts architect Roark in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is confronted by the critic who tried to destroy him. "Why don't you tell me what you think of me," says the critic. To which Roark responds, "I don't think...
...first draft of plans was rejected by the Cambridge Historical Commission (CHC), so the building's owner, Cambridge Savings Bank, has commissioned a second architect to make stronger efforts to preserve the building's historic feel. The CHC will make a final decision on renovation plans tomorrow, and sources involved in Harvard Square commerce say there's a very good chance Reed Block could be made a historic landmark, helping those fighting to preserve The Tasty...