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...design was finished by his disciple Bart Prince, to whom the urban fabric of Los Angeles owes some gratitude: the green bulk that rises beside the La Brea Tar Pits has been toned down from Goff's original sketches. It no longer flaunts pseudo-Aztec mosaic panels; its tower, which looked like a Hawaiian chief's headdress clapped on top of a random-rubble grotto, has been pruned; and the millions of little round mother-of-pearl tiles, like sequins, that were meant to encrust its inside columns have been replaced by cream plaster. Connoisseurs of Goff will also miss...
...election enters its final weeks these quarrels become less important and the big riddle campaign watchers now ponder is which ivory-tower advisers will become Washington-bound paper pushers and which will continue to publish papers...
Wreckage was everywhere too. Ramps around Kingston airport were flung and crumpled like Tinkertoys. The causeway between Kingston and Manley Airport was flooded, and the whole island was left short of food and without safe drinking water. The airport control tower was battered out of commission, and until Thursday air traffic consisted only of military transports carrying relief supplies from the U.S., Canada, Europe and Jamaica's Caribbean neighbors. The hospital in Mandeville lost its roof, and the University Hospital of the West Indies in Mona was severely damaged. With water supplies contaminated, there is fear of an outbreak...
...accomplice and screamed ((in Arabic)) what sounded like an order." According to Testrake, Hammadi pulled Stethem, who had been bound and beaten unconscious, to his feet and out of Testrake's view. "I heard a single pistol shot, and then the other hijacker screamed at me to tell the tower that one passenger had been shot...
...torn by good intentions and unintended consequences, fall the vast majority of people who confront the panhandlers day after day. The encounter is often frightening, always discomfiting, for Americans live in cities full of appalling contrasts: the verminous tenements rub up beside the million-dollar developments; the high-rises tower over the ghettos. It is hard for those who trip on a beggar as they leave a restaurant, where they may have just spent more on a meal than some people earn in a week, to claim that they cannot spare some change. The question, rather, is, Should they...