Illustration by Bob Scott No long chats with the doorman. No umbrellas or wet boots in the hall. No welcome mats or decorations on the front door. No wearing flip-flops in the lobby. These are but a few of the more extreme rules that apartment boards in New York City have imposed, or at least [...]
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From the studio that put Sandra Bullock in a spacesuit may now come a movie about the real-life seamstresses who traded sewing brassieres for stitching Neil Armstrong‘s lunar wardrobe. Warner Bros. Pictures, which this fall will release Alfonso Cuarón‘s Bullock-and-George-Clooney-as-astronauts sci-fi film “Gravity,” has hired screenwriter Richard Cordiner to adapt the non-fiction book, “Spacesuit: Fashioning [...]
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By Linda Sieg and Ruairidh Villar SAGAMIHARA, Japan (Reuters) – When Masayoshi Matsumoto joined the Japanese army in 1943 and was sent to occupied China as a medic, he thought he was taking part in a righteous war to free Asia from the yoke of Western imperialism. Seven decades later, the 91-year-old retired Christian pastor [...]
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By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES (Reuters) – Actors and directors gathered for the world’s leading movie showcase in Cannes this week said television was increasingly luring top talent and should no longer be seen as artistically inferior to the big screen. TV series like “The Wire,” “Homeland”, “Mad Men,” “The Sopranos” and “Game of Thrones”, which [...]
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By Sharon Bernstein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California unveiled prices on Thursday that consumers will pay for a selection of health plans offered through the state under the Affordable Care Act, providing a glimpse into how health care reform may look as it is rolled out across the nation. Under the federal health care reform [...]
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By Koh Gui Qing BEIJING (Reuters) – As evidence mounts that China‘s economy is losing momentum, economists are fast abandoning their rosy recovery forecasts and bracing for what could be the country’s slowest growth rate in 23 years. In the space of five months, analysts have swung from confidently predicting a modest pick-up in the [...]
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LONDON (AP) — Manchester United says it has refinanced more than $ 290 million of high-interest debt, cutting the club’s interest costs by around $ 15 million a year. Fresh from winning a 20th English title, United says in a statement to The Associated Press that it has secured a new loan from Bank of [...]
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Robert Wright for The New York Times Clockwise from top right, work by Tamera Leigh Staten; ChiLab; Milton Glaser; Lladró Atelier’s Dazzle collection; Dirk Vander Kooij. More Photos » The 25th International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, which ended Tuesday, offered many surprises. There were dollhouse-size candelabra inserted into hanging [...]
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TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada‘s main stock index stumbled on Thursday, with every major sector in the red on concerns about a quicker-than-expected end to the U.S. Federal Reserve‘s stimulus program and sluggish economic data from China and Europe. further weighed on the market after the country’s No. 2 lender reported earnings slightly below expectations. TD [...]
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PARIS — The Paris of grand monuments, stately boulevards and haute cuisine is justly famous. But the city is also the hub of the world’s fifth-largest economy, with more than two million people grappling with 21st-century problems of global competitiveness, immigration and assimilation, and a chronic shortage of affordable housing. In response, the city government [...]
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