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...dictatorial regime of Saddam, has provided a poor example to the world. What will now stop regional powers - or even individuals - from intervening in neighboring countries? A proper, legal vision of intervention must be reconstructed and action taken only when a U.N. resolution has deemed it legitimate. Paul van der Schueren Paris Of Medals and Myths The performance of Canada's Olympic team could have been better, but the only thing that went wrong in Athens is that we Canadians bought into the Olympic myth that winning gold medals is somehow necessary for a country's self-esteem [Sept...
...complaints were sufficient to warrant the hiring of a new driver, who will now fill gaps in the schedule, as well as augmenting on-demand van service and late-night service...
Between 8 and 9:30 p.m., Dawn Burleigh will cover the breaks of other shuttle drivers; between 10 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. she will join a fleet of two other vans in the on-call van service; and between 12:30 a.m. and 4 a.m., she will provide extended-hours service. In the past, shuttle service was interrupted at various times on all routes because of union contracts which stipulate a mandatory 30-minute “lunch break” in the middle of shifts. The breaks in shuttle service occurred between...
Less is more? For much of the 20th century, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's famous formulation was a guiding principle of design and not just for architects. But even when pared-down Modernism was at the height of its prestige, there was a countertradition of glorious excess. "Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture," an exhibition that runs from Oct. 9 through Jan. 16 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, traces an aesthetic of surplus and superabundance that continually bursts forth in clothing, buildings, automobiles and objects--a taste for luxury, spectacle and even pure, shameless glitz that...
...only arty texture stuff the actors got to do was minimalist theater in front of a blue screen in a Van Nuys, Calif., warehouse, stooping when Conran yelled "Duck!" and pretending they were interacting with everything from dirigibles to a desk to a shaky hologram of a digitally resurrected Laurence Olivier (another actor voiced his new lines). George Lucas and others have created scenes in front of blue screens before, but Conran was the first to try to build absolutely everything nonhuman on the computer. It's the anti--Who Framed Roger Rabbit, with Conran leaving holes for the actors...