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Daniel Libeskind calls architecture "a civic art, an art of negotiation." Which is another way of saying that designing a building is only half the battle. The real struggle is getting the thing built. Libeskind, 56, was named the winner last week of the extraordinarily hard fought and closely watched competition for a design to rebuild the World Trade Center site. Now the real work begins: financing a scheme that includes a museum and five office buildings, working with the sharp-elbowed assortment of public authorities and private parties who lay claim to the site and keeping the plan from...
...stated selection criteria for the award include skills, sportsmanship, clutch performance, character, competitiveness, love of hockey, academic achievement and civic involvement. The committee will have a difficult task fairly applying those criteria...
...sharing administration last October due to allegations of I.R.A. spying inside the British government. Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern postponed the elections, originally scheduled for May 1, to allow the parties more time to reach agreement. Going It Alone poland Prime Minister Leszek Miller defied calls by the opposition Civic Forum to hold early elections following the collapse of the coalition led by his Democratic Left Alliance. The split with the Peasant Party (which refused to back a road-tax bill) leaves Miller 19 seats short of a majority in the 460-member lower house of parliament. Death...
...father drove a Town & Country wagon roughly the size of a supertanker. One day a forward-thinking uncle asked me, "Why does your dad drive that gas guzzler? Doesn't he give a damn about the planet?" When my father caved in and bought a Honda Civic, he displayed the zeal of the convert and--drunk on virtue and high mileage--indignantly began to point out land yachts everywhere. My brother and I, jammed into the backseat, felt differently. We missed the Town & Country...
...sessions are strategy sessions,” said Campbell, who is executive director and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. “They are discussions sharing ideas about merging the volunteer and youth political movements. It’s about putting the service back into public service with ideas coming from young people...