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According to Nesson, Oppenheim is the architect of the RIAA’s entire litigation campaign...
This is where the leader-visionary evolves into the leader-architect. Alignment is one of those buzz words that come loaded with baggage. To some it conjures up a mechanistic world: alignment is what mechanics do to an automobile when the steering is out of whack. But alignment also evokes images of living organisms, as when a chiropractor aligns the body, readjusting the skeletal system to restore it to better balance and integration. The alignment of teams and organizations has more to do with the human side of the term than with its mechanistic counterpart...
...York City-based architect David Rockwell has come up with some ingenious ways to amplify that familiar scene and, in the process, is bringing to the U.S. the most innovative playground design since child psychologists started fiddling with jungle gyms in the 1960s. Dubbed the Imagination Playground in a Box, his creation takes sand and water - two things all kids love - and adds in dozens of loose parts: foam building blocks of various shapes and sizes, buckets, wheelbarrows, brooms and shovels. All these elements come neatly stored in a mobile shipping container. "You just open this thing up, and kids...
...Venice's most significant break with tradition is the new bridge across the Grand Canal. Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, Constitution Bridge - which connects Santa Lucia rail station and the Piazzale Roma bus terminal - caused controversy at first. Now, however, its swooping glass-and-steel curve has become the signature of a city that knows how to have...
...American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank, invited Gramm in Friday to make his case and take some questions. The crowd was heavy on the conservative Washington notables - Cato Institute chairman emeritus William Niskanen, McCain campaign talking head Nancy Pfotenhauer and Iraq War architect Paul Wolfowitz were three that I recognized. But rabble off the street were welcome as well. (Read a critique of Phil Gramm's explanation of the financial crisis...