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...chalk that infiltrates everything--seams, food, mouths--and turns to slime at the slightest hint of rain. And while U.S. officers concede that the mission in Afghanistan has no end date, they do like to point to the fact that most of the new construction is in wood, not brick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Themselves Feel Right at Home | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

This production, under the direction of Lauren M. Winkler ’01-’02, benefits from a strong set design by Alejandro J. Ros ’02. Breaking the courtroom’s back wall into segments and placing a brick-and-barbed-wire fence behind it, Ros helps the audience find parallelism between the worlds...

Author: By Jason T. Fitzgerald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘A Few Good Men’ Handles Honor, Code, Not Truth | 4/26/2002 | See Source »

...high-concept visions (he once designed a bedroom like a Pullman sleeper) even if he has to make somebody cry. The most notorious moment in Spaces history came when he redid a living room for a Seattle couple who asked that he not alter the wife's beloved brick fireplace. It was like waving a maroon, dark green and oatmeal flag in front of a bull. "'Don't paint the fireplace!'" he recalls. "Fine. I won't paint the fireplace." He built a screen around it instead, and the wife duly burst into tears. "[The screen] wasn't earth shattering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Love Those Curtains! | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...town's old quarter, which on the map looks like a boot giving the fat brown snake of the Mekong a kick in the belly, is a conservationist's paradise: a kind of colonial Disneyland with lane after unspoiled, palm-fringed lane filled with French brick and stucco buildings and teakwood homes that sag with age. On almost every corner and rise sits a temple: there are more than 30, some half a millennium old. The golden sweep of their winglike roofs seems to suspend them in the hazy skies. The place is so photogenic the local Kodak concession must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Luang Prabang, Time Stands Still | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

Adam M. Johnson ’02, a member of the working group, said that the expense of wiring cable through the brick walls of the Houses—which would cost several million dollars—was more than the administration was willing...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Committee Finds Cable Television Unlikely | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

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