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Crafted out of materials like black gold, pernambuco wood and cacholong stone, iconic architect Frank Gehry's first-ever jewelry collection for Tiffany draws on his childhood memories as well as structural elements from his renowned buildings. The Torque cuffs, below, are modeled on his signature curved and twisted lines. Gehry says that for him jewelry was not a big leap of imagination: "The impulse is always the same?to discover new forms that have a natural flow and a relevance to contemporary life...
...climax before burning out in an extended, guitar-wanking, minor-key conclusion. The muddy, intoxicated instrumentation of “Where There’s A Will There’s A Whalebone” quotes a section of Jimi Hendrix’s “Third Stone from the Sun” just before entering a borderline-psychotic rap by L.A. emcee Busdriver. Musical cameos aside, the instrumentation is by far the album’s most stunning virtue. The rhythm section locks tightly into the groove of each song, demonstrating the type of communication you?...
...foreign businesses can work safely by basing their Iraq operations in Kurdistan rather than 320 km south in Baghdad. "For anybody wanting to do anything in Iraq today, the entry point is Kurdistan," says Magne Normann, DNO's senior vice president and Iraq project director. "It's a stepping-stone for moving into the rest of Iraq when the time is right." Last November a television campaign funded by the Kurdistan Development Corp. was launched on U.S. networks showing serene rural scenes, using the slogan the other iraq. Still, that message has not translated for some. "People in the States...
Some have said thatOpus' true secret isits clout in international politics. Poland's new conservative regime includes an Opus minister and several Opus officials, according to one of the group's Warsaw directors; membership there is rumored to be a political stepping-stone. In Peru, Juan Luis Cardinal Cipriani, the church's first openly Opus Dei Cardinal, was seen as having sanctioned antiterrorist excesses by the regime of former President Alberto Fujimori; he scoffed at the accusations, writing that most human-rights groups were "fronts for Marxist and Maoist political movements...
...President's schedule gives a hint: For much of the morning, the President will be in Sterling, Va., touring Europa Stone Distributors, Inc., and holding a "Roundtable on Taxes and the Economy." That promises to be a staid respite from what could be a raucous day back home...