The HSBC branch on Manhattan's 14th Street was an imposingstructure back in the day when a bank's physical size said something about its balance sheet.
As it was, Bridge left Carnegie and made his way down Fifth Avenue from the awe-inspiring, sixty-four-room mansion across from Central Park at 91st Street to an even more imposingstructure some twenty blocks south.
Only slightly less imposing is the pink granite structure that is Seattle Art Museum (1300 First Avenue) and the 48-foot "Hammering Man" that guards its entrance.
Bremer said it is critical that he discuss the ideas first with the Governing Council, and the White House concern is that it not be seen as imposing a plan -- and a new government structure -- on Iraq.