LOS ANGELES — In an atmosphere that veered from summer-camp giddy to dark anxiety, Los Angeles began Friday evening to close down 10 miles of one of its most storied and heavily traveled highways, Interstate 405, in a construction project that will test whether this region can, for a weekend, change the highway habits that have defined it for more than 50 years.
In keeping with his modest character and his current role as an expert analyst for Sky Sports, Hill prefers to consider the wider ramifications of 1994 and how that desolate weekend changed F1 so profoundly – for Roland Ratzenberger, the Austrian driver, lost his life the day before Senna.
"My story is about how one weekend changed my life," Tetiana Siyanko, Co-Organizer of the Kiev event, said.
Ambassador Lukman Faily said that though Washington is the Iraqi government's first-choice arms supplier, "we have to choose whoever is available" because of the threat from the militant group the Islamic State, which during the weekend changed its name from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
A wedding proposal like the one captured in the video above sounds like the premise of a Hollywood movie: A pilot of 30 years makes inflight announcements day-in and day-out, but the one he made over the weekend changed his life forever.
But those smallish films that could be helped (An Education, Precious, The Last Station) each received relatively large upswings at least in terms of pure weekend-to-weekend percentage changes.
Then last year, Jay Walder, the head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (who is leaving his post at the end of the year), asked Vignelli to revise his 1972 map for the M.T.A.'s The Weekender Web site, which informs the public of weekend service changes caused by maintenance projects.
Now, with the weekend service changes, their friends are reluctant to visit.
