Paris Forum: LE GRAND PHILLY WITH THE CONVENTION CENTER AND AVENUE OF THE ARTS, PHILADELPHIA IS REINVENTING ITSELF. AND, AS THEY DID IN THE 19TH CENTURY, PLANNERS ARE LOOKING TO THE CITY OF LIGHT FOR IDEAS.
Philadelphia architects met this week to talk about transforming South Broad Street into an Avenue of the Arts, and the big question they pondered sounded like something Henry Higgins would ask if he were an architect instead of a linguist. "Well," he'd sputter with exasperation, "why can't Philadelphia be more like Paris?"After all, central Philadelphia already has a Parisian air, with its splendid Second Empire...
Paris Forum: BUSH BRIT TRIP DOGGED BY AL QAEDA FEARS
IT should be a dream to make a state visit to America's best ally and sleep at Buckingham Palace - but President Bush's trip to Britain next week threatens to be a nightmare, haunted by fears of al Qaeda attacks. Bush is getting an honor that his dad didn't get, nor Bill Clinton, since Buckingham Palace bills it as the "first" state visit by a U.S. president. Ronald Reagan came close in 1982, but didn't sleep at the...
Paris Forum: MARITIME CALENDAR
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