Word: apartness
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Leading 27-21, Harvard began to fall apart, dropping five of the next six points. But senior outside hitter Juan Ramos bailed the Crimson out with a crucial kill, and Harvard would take the game a point later...
...third section the Mori show focuses on artists and architects who took buildings apart as a means of arriving at new ways to put them together. In the early 1970s the architect-artist Gordon Matta-Clark would buzz-saw transverse slices out of entire wood and plaster structures, giant incisions that would turn the buildings into a fascinating kind of site-specific sculpture. His work shook up the very idea of a building, a practice carried further by the generation of Deconstructivist architects like Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman and Daniel Libeskind, who came to prominence in the '80s with work...
...late 19th century, as the Chinese empire waned, foreigners carved up Shanghai, turning the swampy land into valuable concessions controlled by the French, British, Americans and others. China was humiliated, but the foreigners did leave a picturesque legacy of leafy streets and stuccoed houses that sets Shanghai apart from other Chinese cities. Today, in order to accommodate Shanghai's swelling population and enhance its image as an international gateway, China's largest metropolis is again bringing the West to the East?this time on its own terms. Shanghai's seven satellite cities will draw so much inspiration from Britain, Italy...
...main protagonists still seem as far apart as ever. North Korea says the ball is in America's court and that it's high time Washington recognized the justness of North Korea's "words for words and action for action" proposal. According to this formula, North Korea will resume its freeze on its nuclear weapons program when the U.S. resumes its rewards of energy supplies, lifts the economic embargo, and removes the North from Washington's list of terrorist-sponsoring states. The U.S. has been down that road before with the 1994 Agreed Framework, which it claims North Korea violated...
What sets Miller apart, says McNichol, is his "supreme self-confidence; not a cockiness, just a deep rooted belief in himself and his ability." That may explain his popularity. A recent Swiss poll rated Miller the most popular skier on the mountain. He's even appreciated by his rivals. Writing in Sportwoche, an Austrian weekly, slalom ace Rainer Schoenfelder credited Miller and his versatility with keeping media attention on the old-fashioned finesse events like slalom in the X Games era. "Thank God for Bode Miller!" he said. Heading into next year's Olympics in Torino, the U.S. ski team...