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Even the Carpenter Center for the Arts, the only building in North America designed by the renowned French architect Le Corbusier, doesn't hold a candle to the pretty buildings of Harvard's past...
They meet morose. Davis (Steve Martin) is an architect unappreciated by his firm and by a staid girlfriend (Dana Delany). He has built the latter a house in their hometown that suits his dreams but not hers. Gwen (Goldie Hawn) is a waitress of dubious but, as she tells it, colorful background. In the course of a one-night stand she learns of the house, standing as empty as her life, and decides to fill up both...
...surrogate: when Luce ran unsuccessfully for Governor in 1990 as a moderate Republican, the joke was that Perot was too busy to do it himself, so he hired his attorney to stand in for him. (Perot ultimately paid off Luce's $950,000 campaign debt.) Luce was an intellectual architect for Perot's crusades to fight drugs and overhaul Texas schools, and many of his ideas -- including school choice and early-childhood intervention -- are likely to figure in a Perot platform. But it is his quieting influence on Perot that will help steer the sometimes impetuous candidate through the election...
...officers. Exercise rooms, traditional furnishings -- even an open booking area without cells -- were added. The changes relieved stress, reduced stereotypical behavior by both inmates and officers, and vastly reduced violence and vandalism. Corrections officials began to see the concept's full potential. "It is so revolutionary," says jail architect Jay Farbstein. "After hearing the anecdotal information, you get a really strong feeling for the power of the idea and how well it works...
...architect who lives near Harvard Square, Aaron arranged this outing to visit three solar-heated homes in suburbs of Boston. A dozen others would join us at the first stop out in Lexington...