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Caracas in the 1950s and 1960s was a modernist boomtown. Croesan oil wealth and a powerful military dictatorship together created massive urban planning projects, built in the modernist style both by renowned American architects, like Philip Johnson, and South American practitioners of the style. The city was once called “pedacito del cielo”—a little piece of heaven. This is not just a nickname, but also seems to refer to the unfulfilled dream of a modernist utopia. Now, slums surround many of the geometric concrete surfaces and glass curtain walls...
...potential villain in this story is La Entrada al Pacifico, a NAFTA trade route signed into law 11 years ago by then governor George W. Bush. It hasn't been built yet, but it may still become a reality, thanks to lobbying from the nearby city of Midland--which would become a distribution and warehousing huband the support of Midland's state representative, who happens to be speaker of the Texas House. If approved and constructed, the route would significantly increase the number of long-haul trucks bringing goods from Mexico through Marfa. In 2006, the average number of trucks...
...most frequent churchgoers by 3 to 1 over Hillary Clinton. But she came back to capture white Evangelicals in Missouri's primary by a 17-point margin--even as Obama continued to sweep black churchgoers. Clinton has also dominated among Catholics. Quietly but steadily, the Clinton camp has built networks of religious supporters and reintroduced Clinton to them as someone who knows her way around a church picnic. And at the last Democratic debate, she slipped in a religious reference, criticizing immigration laws that would have "criminalized the Good Samaritan and Jesus Christ...
...Currently, Clinton holds a lead of 231 Democratic superdelegates to Obama’s 145, a vestige of the days before primary campaigning began in earnest, when she was the presumptive choice of the party establishment and the seemingly unbeatable frontrunner. Months later, Obama has won more contests and built more momentum than his rival; and if he continues to do so superdelegates should vote to best reflect the sentiments of the people. In addition to this reliance on superdelegates, so much else is wrong with the current presidential nomination process: the tremendous cost that ties candidates’ fates...
...almost funny in its own sort of way.“ And one Winthrop resident even proposed “constructing an ark in the MAC quad” over the House’s e-mail list. “Free admission once it’s built if you bring a pair of animals we don’t have yet,” wrote Alexander N. D’Amour ’08. But other residents remained concerned about flooding in other parts of the house. “We’re actually having problems...