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...open in Bilbao and Berlin as well as Venice, but the next phase of the bold plan has run into a wall of financial and political trouble. In May, one of Krens' most cherished projects - the Rem Koolhaas-designed Guggenheim Museum Las Vegas - closed due to plummeting attendance a mere two years after its much-hyped opening. And last month, a Brazilian judge dramatically halted Krens' plans to build a dazzling new Guggenheim Museum in Rio de Janeiro; opponents are questioning the mayor's power to authorize the project. The world just isn't smiling on expansionist Americans these days...
...measured manager, liked in the newsroom--to be the interim executive editor while a replacement search is under way. Sulzberger tells TIME he's looking for a "great journalist" who is "an effective leader and a manager"--which, in the wake of the Raines war, may be more than mere corporate-speak. "If employees are happy and fulfilled," he says, "generally what they produce is good." Times employees say they are relieved to have a respite from the turmoil with Lelyveld, who addressed the newsroom Friday, ending with four simple words: "Let's go to work." --Reported by Amanda Bower...
Davis has seen his approval rating plummet to a mere 27%. Constituents are outraged that the budget surplus he inherited when he entered office has deteriorated to a deficit of $38 billion, and that he's championing an $8 billion tax increase. But few could have expected that these problems would exact such a swift political price. If the recall proponents get 900,000 valid signatures by mid-July, a costly special election will be held in the fall. Voters will be asked whether Davis should be removed from office--and, on the same ballot, which candidate should replace...
...claimed to be a mere middleman with no clear idea of what he was peddling. But a U.S. embassy official present during an interview with the suspect said Narong admitted that he intended to sell the material to an unspecified terror group in Thailand, according to the Bangkok Post. Narong was hawking, for $240,000, an alarmingly large amount of cesium 137, experts said. His arrest marked the second such incident in Asia recently. On May 30, Bangladeshi police busted four suspected members of a militant Islamic group with a package of radioactive uranium suitable for use in a dirty...
...Members of the Yokohama Country & Athletic Club, for instance, are entitled to stay at Melbourne's venerable Royal Automobile Club of Victoria, where a double room and breakfast cost a mere $106 (a savings of more than $70 on typical city center-hotel rates). If you belong to the Beijing Riviera Country Club, then you can rest your head at the swanky Raffles Town Club in Singapore, where a suite with its own pool starts from $185. Meanwhile, members of the Tokyo British Club can rent low rise-bungalow accommodation at the leafy United Services Recreation Club in Hong Kong...