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...supported in their black-power salute at the 1968 Olympics. I believe Peter would turn in his grave if he read that. He had nothing but support for Tommie Smith and John Carlos and was honored to be asked to the unveiling of the statue of their salute at San José State University. He was completely happy with the fact that he was not represented on the dais. He loved the idea that people could stand in his place and be photographed beside two great athletes. He would also agree that Smith and Carlos had done more than enough...
...campaigns waged by the IRA and the Angry Brigade - a tiny gang that went on a bombing spree in the early '70s. Even the criminal classes seem to have a grudging respect for the Met. Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner since 2005, recalls a 1980s research trip to San Francisco when he joined his U.S. counterparts in an interrogation room as they prepared to question a suspected rapist: "I identified myself and the chap's reaction was, 'What on earth do you think I've done? I haven't done anything that serious to have Scotland Yard here...
...support, which could not as easily be stigmatized as "neocolonial" and therefore would have greater long-term legitimacy, could alleviate the burden on the U.S. and NATO and end up helping heal an otherwise failed and moribund state in a very critical part of our troubled world. Maurice Kane, SAN DIMAS, CALIF...
...Terminal 5 - located directly behind the old landmarked Terminal 5 designed by Eero Saarinen for T.W.A. in 1962 - was created by the San Francisco-based architectural firm Gensler. It was a collaboration launched by chance when Art Gensler, the firm's chairman, missed his flight home and ended up on a JetBlue flight to California with the airline's founder, David Neeleman. (Neeleman is known for hopping random JetBlue flights and handing out peanuts to passengers). "Nothing is more nerve-wracking," says Gensler's Bill Hooper, chief architect of the Terminal 5 project, "than having your boss hand you [David...
NAKED COWBOY arrested in San Francisco. Seriously, what took so long...