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...South Asians have risen to become leaders in their communities, industries, and government, forging a unique and proud identity in the American landscape. This can sometimes create the illusion that there are no problems in our immigrant community. In reality, South Asians in America face a variety of challenges that we must confront, and one of the most important is the widespread prevalence of domestic abuse in our households. A product of a variety of cultural and societal factors, it is a problem that is shameful and dangerous to ignore...
Graduate School of Design professor Michael Van Valkenburgh—who specializes in landscape architecture—will be honored this coming May with the American Academy of Arts and Letters’s 2010 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture...
...Valkenburgh’s work has included landscape designs for Pennsylvania Avenue, the American Museum of Natural History, and Cornell and Princeton Universities. He has also spearheaded efforts to restore Harvard Yard over the past twenty years...
...earlier verison of the Mar. 31 news article "Graduate School of Design Prof. Awarded Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture" incorrectly stated that Graduate School of Design professor Michael Van Valkenburgh is the only living GSD professor to have received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’s 2010 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture. In fact, Van Valkenburgh is the only living GSD Landscape Architecture professor to have received this award...
...apocalyptic theorist whose TV show has been presented on Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcast Network. The Hutaree views federal, state and local law-enforcement officers as "foot soldiers" for the federal government, or participants in the "new world order" - the perpetual bête noire of the American militia movement. The group had apparently planned to execute its uprising in April. "We couldn't let that exercise go forward," said Barbara McQuade, the top U.S. attorney in eastern Michigan. (See more about the Hutaree - a new name in American paranoia...