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...requires a special mix of vision and audacity to build a luxury hotel in a run-down neighborhood during a crippling economic crisis, and to call it not just a hotel but also a "universe." Yet that is precisely what Argentine fashion magnate Alan Faena did when he bought an abandoned warehouse in Buenos Aires' Puerto Madero district, convinced Philippe Starck to design the interior and, in 2005, opened the 10-meter-high doors of the Faena Hotel and Universe, tel: (54-11) 4010 9000. Impressively, he makes good on his out-of-the-world claim with lush red velvet...
...think we were able to build up a lot of momentum early because our faceoff guy, [co-captain] John Henry Flood, was doing an excellent job getting fast breaks,” Stenmark said. “That’s what we wanted, seeing how one of our best shooters on the team is Evan Calvert...
...premier forum to face the most interdisciplinary of all problems. Addressing global questions of sustainability demands the attention of all our faculties, both as academics and as human beings. Our most basic ways of life demand that we provide real answers about how we will produce energy, build homes, and grow food in an increasingly strained world, answers that require political finesse, scientific rigor, innovative design, and legal savvy...
...also penned six books on higher education, and said he hopes to write one or two more in his retirement. But instead of playing an active role in drafting the new curriculum, Bok’s strategy has been to consult with key professors to build consensus for the reforms.“If they only did it because somebody beat them over the head—assuming you could ever make them do it by that way anyway, which is very doubtful—you wouldn’t gain anything,” Bok said.By contrast, Summers resigned...
...moderate in the mold of Bill Clinton. In the 2008 race, he had positioned himself as the most populist and liberal of the serious contenders for the nomination. In a time of war and terrorist threats abroad, Edwards chose a decidedly domestic, and almost anachronistic, theme around which to build his campaign - the fight to eradicate poverty in America. Will Clinton or Obama take up that banner? Not likely...