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Capital Campaign money went toward boosting undergraduate aid and recruiting new faculty—Rudenstine was the architect for projects that affected undergraduates in ways they sometimes didn’t perceive. The University’s increasing national profile enabled Rudenstine to attract some of the nation’s top names to the Faculty—especially to the Afro-American studies department...
...Current plans place the memorial, an imposing (detractors say fascistic) design by Austrian architect Friedrich St. Florian, smack dab in the middle of the Mall, between the towering Washington Monument and the stately Lincoln memorial (site of Martin Luther King?s "I Have a Dream" speech). Opponents call it an outrageous defacement of a national space, while defendants consider the prominent placement a fitting testimony to the monument?s importance...
June 7, 1974: Architect I. M. Pei promises to scale down plans for the JFK library, eliminating the 85-foot glass pyramid and the two 350-seat theaters. The changes were made in response to the outrage by community members against the large size of the library...
Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku was indeed the attack's architect, but his intent was not to "annihilate their Pacific Fleet with a single attack," as he declares in the movie. His more subtle aim was to discourage America from interfering in Japanese affairs by showing the Yanks that Japan was a force. He hoped a quick victory in Hawaii would prompt the U.S. to petition for peace in the Pacific, which would allow expansionist Japan, already on the move in China, to pursue oil and other supplies in Sumatra, Borneo and Java. Japan felt it was under a tight deadline...
...United States out of the Middle East will be recorded as, at best, a footnote in the chronicle of a long and bloody war in which the real measure of U.S. success is tragedies averted rather than perpetrators apprehended. After all, the man named in the indictment as the architect of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania wasn't even in court, and the accused were at best mid-level operatives in his diffuse international network - and therefore easily replaced. In a warrior cult that holds martyrdom as its highest honor, being imprisoned - or even executed...