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DIED. BENJAMIN C. THOMPSON, 84, architect who transformed a decrepit waterfront in Boston into the vibrant Faneuil Hall; in Cambridge, Mass. Critics sneered at the mall as a sanitized replica of a European market, but Thompson repeated the formula across the country, including at Washington's Union Station...
...Hermit state, international pariah, charter member of the "axis of evil"?North Korea is hardly an obvious place for long-term investments like tree farms. The decrepit Stalinist economy depends on international handouts to prevent widespread starvation. The Dear Leader?strongman Kim Jong Il?runs the country like a medieval fief. But Savage is confident that his $23 million, 20,000 hectare Paulownia plantation south of Pyongyang will pay off. His Singapore-based company, Maxgro Holdings, is investing $5 million in North Korea this year, and he even has plans to build a resort there, complete with a 70-room...
...should also be noted that Cuba, China and the Sudan all have seats on the U.N.’s main human rights body. When one considers the realities of Cuban political dissidents rotting in decrepit, inhuman prison cells, Chinese religious minorities suffering harsh persecution by Beijing and Sudanese women and children being sold into chattel slavery, it becomes difficult to accord the commission any real credibility...
...EMPIRE FALLS Forty-year-old Miles Roby seems to be one of life's born losers. Or are his problems self-made? He manages a decrepit restaurant in the dying Maine burg of Empire Falls--the place he was born and feels helpless to leave--in the wan hope of inheriting it from the widow who owns it. The limited social circles available condemn him to repeated and unpleasant meetings with his ex-wife's obnoxious boyfriend. He has lost parental control of his bright but troubled teenage daughter. Why doesn't he pack up and start somewhere...
Empire Falls Forty-year-old Miles Roby seems to be one of life's born losers. Or are his problems self-made? He manages a decrepit restaurant in the dying Maine burg of Empire Falls - the place he was born and feels helpless to leave - in the wan hope of inheriting it from the widow who owns it. The limited social circles available condemn him to repeated and unpleasant meetings with his ex-wife's obnoxious boyfriend. He has lost parental control of his bright but troubled teenage daughter. Why doesn't he pack up and start somewhere...