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John Bennett, architect, and John Riley, director of Miami Art Museum and former chief curator of architecture and design at Museum of Modern Art, design their Miami home as homage to spirit of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's never-built court houses; drawing; photos (M)
If Tiger Woods shepherded golf to a new place in the United States, Lorena Ochoa might one day be his equivalent in Mexico, a country of over 103 million still learning the intricacies of the sport.
David Pogue reviews 11 cameras with street price under $300; photos (M)
Military analysis says recommendations by Iraq Study Group go against assessments made by some of its own military advisers and posits that US can accomplish in one year what it has failed to accomplish in three; says study group is projecting that rapid infusion of US military trainers will improve Iraqi security forces enough that US combat brigades can withdraw by early 2008; says experience of US commanders shows difficulties in rapidly handing over security responsibilities to Iraq; military experts say there are several difficulties with panel's recommendation: that it underestimates challenge of building Iraqi security force; that rapid withdrawal of US combat forces would expose remaining US advisers to dangerous risk; that it may take combined efforts of US combat units and Iraqi security forces to halt spiraling violence and civil strife; map; photo (M)
Fannie Mae will reduce its earnings by $6.3 billion to correct several years of accounting problems in one of nation's biggest financial scandals; Federal regulators plan to file lawsuit before end of year in effort to recover millions of dollars from Fannie Mae's former chairman Franklin D Raines and chief financial officer Timothy Howard; both men were ousted in December 2004; James B Lockhart III, director of Office of Housing and Enterprise Oversight, comments; Federal investigators have searched through company's records, leading Securities and Exchange Commission and Office of Housing and Enterprise Oversight to exact $400 million civil penalty in May; Daniel H Mudd, who succeeded Raines as Fannie Mae's chief executive, comments; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 6, 2006, covering December 7, 2006.
Jay-Z
Daughtry
Various Artists
The Beatles
Snoop Dogg
2006Jeane Kirkpatrick, American academic and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (born 1926)[†]
Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick was an American diplomat and political scientist who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. An ardent anticommunist, she was a longtime Democrat who became a neoconservative and switched to the Republican Party in 1985. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 presidential campaign, she became the first woman to serve as United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]