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This year’s overwhelming dread of fall move-in came in late July. It wasn’t Harvard I feared—who can wait to return to the famed land of red brick and overwork after only a few weeks away? No, it was the actual move-in itself. All those boxes. So much angst built up inside that I exclaimed aloud, “Phew! Thank gosh I don’t ever have to do move-in again after this year...
...logged fewer sick days than before the national crisis. "They're tired and they've made a lot of personal sacrifices, but they continue to demonstrate the same dedication today as they did on the 11th of September," says Anderson. Anderson's own closet-size cubicle inside the small brick customs office is a spartan place purged of distractions except for photos of Linda and their daughter, 23, and son, 19. Taped to the wall is a tattered cartoon of a happy dragon picking his teeth. The caption reads: "No matter how hard you work, no matter how right...
...religion, at least in the eyes of secularized society. Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn all designed great and very spare modern churches. The sole foray into church design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the great founding master of modernism, was a nondenominational chapel in brick, steel and glass built in 1952 on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. To put it mildly, it's a parsimonious expression of faith. The man who said, "God is in the details," did not provide many here for God to be in. From the outside it looks something...
...year.) Of the international aid that has come to Afghanistan, 70% to 80% has gone toward immediate humanitarian assistance?food, water, shelter?according to Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Omar Samad. This leaves thousands if not millions of Afghans to begin rebuilding on their own, one brick at a time...
Tang Guo, one of Nanjing's most successful contemporary painters, has a studio that could have been clipped from an architectural magazine: a polished black brick floor reflects light from an elegant hanging lamp wrapped in handmade paper. The walls are a washed-out olive green, and Tang's jewel-toned works lean against furniture and walls with a deceptive casualness?precisely where they will be noticed most. In contrast, Guo Haiping's studio in the city center is haphazardly filled with his signature finger-painted monochromes and random objects?a toilet hangs on the entrance room wall, covered from...