Le Corbusier's life shown in 2,000 illustrations

NEW YORK _ This formidable picture book traces the monumental career of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, the prophet of modern architecture and city planning known as Le Corbusier.

Weighty at 20 pounds, the bulky volume encompasses 2,000 photos of Le Corbusier's innovative structures and controversial building schemes, excerpts of his sketchbooks and treatises, examples of his art works and personal letters, with English translations from the French.

Striver, sycophant, savant, "Corbu" was an architect-colossus in the august company of German Bauhaus innovators Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe and American Frank Lloyd …

New Hoover coach wants to keep 'going forward'

Tim Meyer didn't waste any time putting his stamp on his almamater's football program.

Herbert Hoover High School's first-year head coach took advantageof the out-of-season practice period that ended Friday, using thosethree weeks to change the Huskies' offensive and defensive schemes.

The most noticeable difference is on defense, where HerbertHoover will shift from a 4-3 in 2008 to a 4-2-5 in 2009. The 5 inthe equation refers to the secondary, where the Huskies will havetwo cornerbacks and three hybrid positions (safeties/outsidelinebackers).

"We tried to suit it to our personnel a little bit better," saidMeyer, a 1992 Herbert Hoover graduate who attended …

Rwanda to Release 8,000 More Suspects

KIGALI, Rwanda - Rwanda will release more than 8,000 prisoners convicted or awaiting trial in the country's 1994 genocide, many of them elderly and sick, the justice minister said.

There have been several similar prisoner releases since 2003, when President Paul Kagame ordered them as part of an effort to decongest Rwanda's crowded prisons and promote reconciliation. Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama said Friday the new releases will begin in February.

Some 63,000 genocide suspects are detained in Rwanda, and justice authorities say at least 761,000 people should stand trial for their role in the 100-day slaughter, in which more than 500,000 minority Tutsis were …

Germany's Fraport says 2008 profit down 17 pct

German airport operator Fraport AG said Thursday its 2008 net profit fell 17 percent as revenue declined largely due to a divestment. It expects sales and profits to decrease further this year.

Frankfurt-based Fraport, which runs Frankfurt Airport, continental Europe's second-busiest after Paris Charles de Gaulle, said net profit in 2008 fell to euro173 million ($217.2 million) from euro209 million in 2007. Group revenues for the year fell 9 percent to euro2.1 billion from euro2.3 billion.

Fraport said revenues were lower because of the sale of its subsidiary, International Consultants on Targeted Security, or ICTS, in April 2008.

Fraport did not …

Ex-H&R Block CEO blasts company; will leave board

Former H&R Block Inc. CEO Thomas Bloch says he is leaving the tax preparer's board of directors, and sharply criticized the company's priorities, prices, and its failure to keep up with do-it-yourself online tax programs.

Bloch, who was president and CEO of the Kansas City company for 15 years, says he will not stand for re-election to the board on Sept. 30. He has been on the board …

Common bond changes delayed in two states

Common bond legislation at the state level has been virtually killed in Nebraska and is in committee delays in Missouri.

The Nebraska Banking, Commerce and Insurance Committee has indefinitely postponed LB 89 on an 8-0 vote. That bill would have expanded the common bond for state-chartered credit unions to include "persons residing within a well-defined neighborhood, community or rural district." It would also have given the Nebraska director of the department of …

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The men's World Cup circuit returns to Europe this weekend after races in North America, with the season looking wide open after the defending overall champion was ruled out for months with injuries.

The absence of Aksel Lund Svindal, who was leading the overall standings again when he crashed in a downhill training in Colorado's Beaver Creek last week, leaves the race for the overall title without a clear favorite ahead of Saturday's giant slalom and Sunday's slalom.

It is the first time since a super-G in 1992 that World Cup men's events are held in this southern Austrian resort, marking a return for a revamped Franz Klammer course.

Svindal, …