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...publication of David Robson's Beyond Bawa: Modern Masterworks of Monsoon Asia - a highly informative study, if at times a little dryly written - will hopefully boost the architect's posthumous profile. It also confronts Bawa's reputation for snobbery. Bawa, grants Robson, was a "paternalistic employer" who paid people poorly and seemed "to have had little understanding of how his assistants actually made ends meet." (Such notoriety dogged Bawa throughout his career. When, in 1986, a retrospective of his work was organized at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London - the first large-scale Bawa exhibit outside Sri Lanka...
...decline in Germany and that its gleaming new Berlin headquarters site is a "shimmering façade." Drobinsksi credited its decline to anti-Scientology monitoring and educational efforts by "the state, political parties, the established church and trade unions." Banning the group would simply give it an undeserved boost, he said, writing, "The demonization of the flagging troupe may only benefit one group - Scientology itself...
...soon. 1) Meredith’s Birthday (Season 1, Episode 4) Amidst downsizing rumors, Dwight reaches out to nemesis Jim, and the two form an unlikely “alliance”—which ends when Jim tapes Dwight inside a box. Michael tries (and fails) to boost morale with an ill-timed birthday party and painfully inappropriate jokes about layoffs, old age, and Meredith’s hysterectomy. Best Line: Angela, “I think green is kind of whorish.” 2) Christmas Party (Season 3, Episode 10) The forces of good and evil...
Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that since the new program could boost Harvard’s yield—the number of admitted students who matriculate—the admissions office may accept a smaller class this year...
French officials and the country's top defense executives vowed at a press conference on Thursday to boost the country's arms exports, by fast-tracking deals and aggressively seeking new business. Rare, considering the usually secretive nexus of government defense bureaucrats and the arms industry, French defense minister Hervé Morin met reporters for an hour, surrounded by top officials from Dassault Aviation and Thales, two of France's biggest defense companies, and told them that it was "a priority to revive our arms exports...