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...first built 33 years ago on the Washington University campus in St. Louis, Missouri, the second now under construction in San Francisco over the subterranean Moscone Convention Center. Building the Yerba Buena Gardens Visual Arts Center hasn't been at all easy for an architect accustomed to Japanese standards of construction. "American craft at this moment is very low," he says. "We really struggled in San Francisco to achieve a certain quality...
...Azanian People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the black-power group the Pan-Africanist Congress. Political violence over the past three years has claimed more than 10,000 lives. But until Hani, no major political leader had been assassinated since Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was stabbed in the chest by a messenger in Cape Town's parliament building...
...plan will be a tough sell for Democrats, who must find $66.7 billion more in cuts to meet last month's congressional budget agreement. Republicans are scornful. "If you like higher taxes, you're going to love this budget," scoffs Senate minority leader Bob Dole, architect of a G.O.P. filibuster that has already stalled Clinton's $16.3 billion economic stimulus package. Even a proposed $21 billion business-investment tax credit is in jeopardy. One way or another, Clinton seems doomed to compromise...
...hometown fanatics, enjoyed last season's spectacle of wealthy clubs like the Dodgers and the Red Sox finishing in last place in their divisions with lineups filled with high-price, low-performance malcontents. A small-market club, the Twins, won the World Series in 1987 and 1991. But the architect who built these championship teams, the Twins' boyish general manager, Andy MacPhail, is worried that Minnesota will be hard pressed to compete in the future, even though it just re-signed Kirby Puckett to a $30 million, five-year contract. "The new development," MacPhail warned, "is that large-market teams...
When you look around Barcelno you first sense the pure giddiness of the city in its buildings. One facade of the Sagrada Familia church, the city's most famous landmark and the creation of iconoclastic architect Antonio Gaudf, shows a stylized crucifixion with a nude and faceless Modernista Jesus, while another side, constructed seemingly of marzipan, seems on the verge of melting...