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...Post Office Square is a good social space, with trees and benches,” Chirot said. “Government Center is a huge brick expanse, and is very inhospitable. City Hall looks like a dungeon or fortress...
...Harvard president’s office transferred into part of Mass. Hall in 1939, more than two centuries after the red-brick colonial was constructed as a student dormitory. Come September, the administration’s move into the University’s oldest building will be complete—students are not expected to live there in the 2007-2008 school year...
...From there, the tour plunges straight into the heart of the old city, where the centuries-old Shor bazaar has changed little from the days when it was thronged with Silk Road traders. In the narrow, twisting alleyways of the bird market, drab mud-brick shops burst with the vibrant plumage of parakeets and fighting quails, while the air is filled with the bright chatter of songbirds, the favored pets of Kabul residents. Handcrafted bamboo and wire cages, festooned with glass beads, dangle from every doorway, and the fragrance of cardamom-laced green tea beckons passersby into tiny chai shops...
...burning cars and Molotov cocktails amid fierce battles between activists and police, only rubble remains of the Youth House, the citadel that the young rebels had fought so hard to preserve. Monday morning, under police protection, masked demolition crews and unmarked bulldozers began to systematically eat into the red-brick, four-story former labor-movement community hall, which had more recently served as a refuge for young people from a society they detested, a place where they could spend hours and days listening to music, drinking beer, smoking dope and planning occasional political protests in pursuit of a revolution that...
...when real life astronauts, such as Lisa Novak, are charged with attempted murder, it is not beyond belief that the Thornton’s character throws a brick through a bank window in one of the film’s opening scenes to vent his financial frustrations. Still, Thornton, best known in recent years for his sleazy roles in “Bad Santa” and “Bad News Bears” — note the repetition of “bad” — is not believable as an earnest former astronaut...