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Maybe if COCA members would mention one word concerning the hypocrisy of trying to terrify Harvard students into thinking that they may have to fight in a war which, were it to actually occur, would almost certainly never involve them, I could have some respect for their strategy. Maybe if they would be as outspoken in their condemnation of human rights abuses perpetrated by the left as they are of those committed by the right, I could admire what they did last week. But they haven...
...Wexner, Eisenman teamed up with the far more conventional Columbus architect Richard Trott ("I went in for the touchdown, and Dick was the blocking back who knocked guys over"). The building is certainly the best work of his career, an intense, almost out-of-control collage of materials and forms. "There's no question that this is my most completely realized building," he says. "In a sense it's my first building." He still would not want to live in any of the houses he's designed (his home is an 18th century cottage in Princeton...
...would anyone who does not mind being tricked and teased by the architecture at almost every turn. The new building (paid for mainly by O.S.U. alumnus and Columbus-based retailer Leslie Wexner) may have been the perfect project for this hyperintellectualizing bad boy to prove himself on: it was conceived by the university as both a museum and a seedbed for avant-garde art, from Anselm Kiefer paintings to Pina Bausch performances to a new video installation that displays images from the building's surveillance cameras. Did the university want a fin-de-siecle monument to erudite monomania, inspired nervousness...
Reports about the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease seem almost as inexorable as the illness. Each new survey appears to uncover a higher incidence of this wasting affliction of the mind. One reason is the difficulty of diagnosis. Since there is no perfect test for the disease -- except upon autopsy -- doctors' estimates of who does or does not have it must rely on subjective assessments. As these methods improve, the number of people with the disease appears to increase...
...outside world is so crucial -- that not even hard-liners will have the stomach for a crackdown. For a while, the Balts may settle for some kind of semiautonomous status in a far looser Soviet confederation. But in these dizzying times, "semi" may become a euphemism for almost total, and "a while" may be a matter of a few years rather than decades...