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...been 30 years since he was last in the lime light as the primary architect for a war which would come to be informally named after him--"McNamara's War." But don't be afraid now. Although he is back to talk about the same thing, he is here--this time--to apoligize...
Demonizing the Alps, however, was far from universal. The naturalist Conrad Gesner, who climbed Mons Pilatus in 1555 to disprove its diabolic reputation, thought of the Alps as the "work of the Sovereign Architect." To 19th century Romantics, the Swiss mountains were symbols of virtue, and the herdsmen who dwelt there paradigms of primitive democracy. Thus the Alps through history have been rather like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates: you never know what meaning you'll find inside them...
...program, with the exception of a welfare-style safety net for the elderly poor? Originally, it was the safety-net concept that was most popular. But before long, that function was eclipsed by the act's more controversial provisions, which guaranteed all workers an earnings-related benefit. F.D.R., the architect of the system, also knew that spreading the benefits around to everyone would shield Social Security from political attack. He funded it through a separate payroll tax to keep it closely identified in the minds of voters as a payback for their working years. That way, he once said...
Most students walking by the Sackler Art Gallery probably haven't notice the bolts on top of the columns in front of the building. But for Philip A. Rizzo, an independent architect in Cambridge, they are "offensive" and an "urban blight" which the University needs to conceal or remove...
When the British architect James Sterling first designed the building the pillars were constructed as the foundation for a pedestrian bridge to be built between the Sackler and the Fogg Art Museum across the street...