News from Guardian Unlimited - 05/29/2010
Camerons follow precedent and move to No 10 Downing Street
Cut deficit, keep Lib Dems happy, pack … PM's to-do list lengthens as family take possession of 'flat above the shop' Some men will do anything to avoid those arduous domestic chores. Rather than help move house, they will even appear on the Today programme, provided they are not going to be waterboarded by John Humphrys. So it was a little surprising today that David Cameron let slip – at the ...
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News from Independent - 05/28/2010
Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture by Deyan Sudjic
Sir Norman Robert Foster is the single most powerful architect in the world.
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News from Art Daily - 05/27/2010
Kimbell Art Museum Unveils Final Design by Renzo Piano for New Building
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. South view of the building design, 2010. Renzo Piano, architect © Renzo Piano Building Workshop. FORT WORTH, TX.-
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News from The Record and Herald News - 05/27/2010
Talented teens star in ‘The Sound of Music’
One of the world's greatest musicals is brought to the stage by some of New Jersey's most talented teens this June. The Garage Theatre Group's acclaimed Youth Conservatory presents Rogers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music" at the Becton Theater, 960 River Road, Teaneck, June 4 – 13.
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News from The Chattanoogan - 05/25/2010
State Tennis Starts Today Nine Area Teams in Action
It’s Spring Fling XVII and the TSSAA state semifinals in tennis starts today at Old Fort Park in Murfreesboro with nine Chattanooga area high school teams hopeful of bringing home a championship trophy on Wednesday.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 05/24/2010
Charles' £81m headache for Qatar
A court hears how Doha feared 'serious consequences' after the prince objected to Richard Rogers' designs on the site of the former Chelsea barracks By pouring billions of pounds of their oil and gas wealth into a few acres of central London real estate the Qatari royal family had hoped to burnish their country's reputation as well as to make money. But the high court today heard how the emirate ...
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News from Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 05/24/2010
Educator, Shaler native James Rogers recalled for heroic rescue
James Richard Rogers studied many years to become an educator. But, in just a few crucial seconds on a remote patch of camping land in northwestern Pennsylvania, Mr. Rogers made himself a hero.
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News from Independent - 05/22/2010
Editor-At-Large: Tesco – every little bit of brand promotion helps
Sir Terry Leahy says he wants the government to consider setting minimum prices for booze, and supports a ban on selling alcohol at less than the cost price. Why has our biggest retailer suddenly been stricken with a social conscience? Writing in the Telegraph, Sir Terry can't resist a dig at politicians, claiming that although they ask our opinions and seek our votes once every five years ...
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News from Times Online - 05/22/2010
Charles made a noble stand against developers
THE proposed development of the Chelsea Barracks site would have deprived the surroundings of light, while its density and height would have damaged one of the few areas retaining their historic character (“ How Charles crushed £3bn development ”, News, last week) Indeed, a group of us paid for the consultancy fees of a lighting engineer out of our own pockets — something Westminster council ...
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News from WLTX-TV Columbia - 05/22/2010
Summer Travel Rebound: Are We There Yet?
Hamer, SC (USA Today/WLTX) -- The Rogers family of Hamilton, N.J., might be the prototypical American family when it comes to summer travel, circa 2010: They're driving on vacation instead of flying; they planned carefully and they're traveling with another family to cut costs. And they'll travel more this summer than last year.
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News from Times Online - 05/21/2010
Prince Charles finds allies to take his ‘carbuncle war’ global
The Prince of Wales has teamed up with a Kuwaiti princess and a Latvian oligarch to take his war on Modernist architecture around the world.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 05/21/2010
Protest camp in Parliament Square
Activists vow to make 'democracy village' permanent fixture in Westminster. One resident gives us a guided tour Rachel Stevenson Richard Rogers
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 05/21/2010
Video: Protest camp in Parliament Square
Dozens of activists vow to make their 'democracy village' a permanent fixture in Westminster. One resident gives the Guardian a guided tour Rachel Stevenson Richard Rogers
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News from USA Today - 05/21/2010
Summer travel rebound: Are we there yet?
On the eve of the summer travel season, many Americans are shaking off the economic doldrums and taking off.
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News from The Lewiston Sun Journal - 05/21/2010
Police log
• Richard Rogers, 28, of 15 Willow St., Auburn, warrant, 9:59 a.m. Wednesday on Park Street. • Michael Leslie Trepanier, 23, of 350 Cobb Road, Turner, criminal attempted theft 10:12 p.m. Wednesday at 142 Turner St.
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News from USA Today - 05/20/2010
Summer travel rebound: Are we there yet?
The summer travel season kicks off with Memorial Day weekend.
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News from Architectural Record - 05/20/2010
An Experimental Early Work by Renzo Piano Threatened
A small, little-known building by a young Renzo Piano may soon fall victim to the wrecking ball, reports the Italian newspaper La Stampa.
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News from Zawya - 05/19/2010
Prince Charles accused of persuading Emir of Qatar to scrap project
LONDON, May 18, 2010 (AFP) - One of London's leading property developers told a court Tuesday he believed Britain's Prince Charles persuaded the Emir of Qatar to block Britain's most expensive housing project.
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News from The New York Observer - 05/18/2010
Vornado Given More Time—Again—to Build Bus Terminal Tower
It's now been more than a decade since Steven Roth and his Vornado Realty Trust first won a bid to develop an office tower atop midtown's Port Authority Bus Terminal. Like many a large public/private project, the deal has been subject to the whims of the real estate market and, for the second time in two cycles, has been relegated to indefinite stagnation, with no tenants in sight. At the Port ...
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News from AFP via Yahoo! News - 05/18/2010
Prince Charles accused of persuading Emir of Qatar to scrap project
One of London's leading property developers told a court Tuesday he believed Prince Charles persuaded the Emir of Qatar to block Britain's most expensive housing project.
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