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...picked up on the museum staff’s cautious attitude towards renovations. “I think right now they’re still sizing things up,” HAA concentrator Kaley L. Bla ’10 says. “If I were the architect or the director, I would be so terrified to start working on this renovation because the Fogg is such a historical building.”For security reasons, the museum staff cannot discuss when specific objects will be moved, nor can they disclose the location of the new off-site facility...
...easily contagious. He offers the same prescription as most authors writing about our modern food supply - it's past time to go local and organic over imported and conventional. But he has one more piece of advice: appreciate, don't shun, the honey bee, for it is the "landscape architect of the American pastoral...
...submitted his letter of resignation to the speaker of parliament and will officially leave office once parliament chooses an interim successor, as it is expected to do within a month. Mbeki appeared calm and dignified as he defended his legacy of 14 years as the premier policy architect of a post-apartheid South African state, first as deputy president under Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1999, then as head of state. But despite his demeanor, it was a bitter moment for a man who, as the son of ANC liberation hero Govan Mbeki, has often said that he was "born...
...lonely figure who lacks Zuma's common touch, Mbeki has proved to be an astute policy architect, but ultimately lost out in what many say essentially boils down to a bruising popularity contest between the two leaders. Mbeki fired Zuma, his then deputy, in 2005 amid a corruption scandal over shady arms procurement deals. But the President's political star has waned since last December, when a party leadership conference removed him as ANC leader and replaced him with Zuma...
...been a turbulent few weeks for U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, Jr. As a principal architect of America's economic policy, Paulson (known as Hank) helped orchestrate the Sept. 7 government takeover of mortgage institutions Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the $85 billion bailout of insurance giant American International Group (AIG) on Sept. 16. By the close of business two days later, he was reportedly looking to find a long-term solution to the nation's ongoing credit crisis, buoying markets on rumors that the Treasury would create some sort of government agency to absorb banks...