How Did He Become the Government's Favorite Architect?
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For years, Thom Mayne was known as L.A.'s countercultural, hard-to-work-with architect. Now he's the government's go-to guy. The evolution of an anti-bourgeois builder.
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The nomination of Bernard Kerik as secretary of homeland security shows how easily and quickly friends can do in a public official.
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How Walter Veltroni, the mayor of Rome, shed his communist roots to become Italy's most popular centre-left politician.
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Dani Rodrik, a Harvard trade economist, has built a reputation for favoring eclectic solutions that mix government and the private sector in pragmatic ways.
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How the Illinois senator came to embrace religion in his life.
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The "Gherkin", London's Swiss Re Tower, is the favourite to win a prestigious architecture award.
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Overseen by Polshek Partnership Architects, the restoration of the Yale University Art Gallery puts Louis I. Kahn back on the pedestal he so richly deserves.
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Twelve-term politician championed D.C. voting rights and a vibrant defense-contracting industry.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 18 -- The Kremlin, its political consultants and state-controlled news media have found an American to admire: Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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During seven years as the District government's chief financial officer, Natwar M. Gandhi has built a reputation as a prudent and ethical fiscal steward, a Wall Street favorite who earned national acclaim for helping to steer a near-bankrupt city to stellar bond ratings and revenue surpluses.
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The architect behind New York's revamped Museum of Modern Art likens it to a Japanese teacup.
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He became very sweet, this big man with a big ego who had been a noted architect; now he was smaller, childlike, and he'd follow my cousin around the house. She'd smile at him, and then he'd ask her, "Will you marry me?"
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The composer and musician shares his stylish essentials.
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Timing of new building in West Bank linked to political survival instincts of Ariel Sharon. In a move that caught both the international community and the Bush administration by surprise, the government of Israel Tuesdayissued contract proposals for 1,001 ...
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He's the host of one the world's  most popular television programs and now many people in Britain  apparently want him to be prime minister as well.
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They are the moments he is best known for. He is the master of the dramatic, the player who makes the fans hold their breath, the man who keeps everyone - teammates included - on the edge of their seats.
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Arts & entertainment: The loquacious, likeable Frank Dunphy explains how he came to manage the world's biggest living artist and diamond geezer, Damien Hirst.