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...coal-pit"), Dark Valley - hint at his impressions. When his men spotted two crows, they joked that the birds must be lost, "or else they would never stop in such a place as this." Climbing in the heat through one windless gully after another, pushing through prickly scrub amid leeches, flies and furious ants, sweaty and smeared with charcoal from burned trees, it's understandable why he spent little time on poetry. But the avid botanist noticed the strange and beautiful flora he was passing and collected several new and rare species...
...tears for Taniguchi the Obscure. He prefers anonymity. Indeed, he kicked off a recent interview with TIME in his almost monastically spare office in central Tokyo by confessing half-nervously, half-wearily: "I've been avoiding this type of thing as much as possible." Still, MOMA reopened last Saturday amid great fanfare, so there's now no avoiding the limelight. Although he has a built a number of highly respected buildings in Japan (including eight museums) over a 40-year career, this is Taniguchi's first international commission?and it ranks as one of the most important museum projects...
While the report had been in the works for a full year, its release comes amid escalating town-gown tensions. With the Cambridge City Council slated to consider a measure this evening calling on Harvard to increase its tax payments to the municipal government, Friday’s report could help the University underscore its substantial contributions to the local economy...
...Personal savings accounts "weaken the system because they dismantle the system," asserts Barbara Kennelly, head of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. "They hurt the economy. They put workers' retirement at risk." Millions of taxpayers in Britain opted into a comparable system in recent years and, amid a poor investment climate, fared worse than those who stuck with the old state-run pension system. The government ended up cutting incentives to shift into private accounts, and unscrupulous financial advisers put many workers in unsuitable investments, leading to new calls for reform and a raft of lawsuits...
...looks out on Tripoli, it is hard to grasp the potential. The city's crumbling old Italian colonial buildings are set amid billboards hailing Libya's socialist revolution and trumpeting the power of the "people's committees," Gaddafi's version of local democracy. But Libya's fans insist the possibilities are real. In the Corinthia--Libya's only luxury hotel, boasting $300-a-night rooms--Western executives crowd the lobby, rubbing shoulders with politicians and diplomats. The U.S. liaison office, the prelude to a real embassy, now operates out of bedrooms on an upper floor of the Corinthia. Two sparsely...