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...good intentions but relying only on good intentions -- comes out of a Washington conference of 44 countries and more than a dozen Jewish, cultural and business groups. The conferees agreed on a set of guidelines to retrieve and return Nazi-looted art to rightful owners and also to return communal property -- from former synagogues and schools, for example -- to Jewish communities. Stuart Eizenstat, head of the U.S. delegation which sponsored the gathering that concluded today, pronounced himself "impressed" and "overwhelmed" by the results...
...Stalinist purges of 1937. His parents seem to have separated before this, and Primakov was brought up in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, where his mother Anna was a gynecologist attached to a local textile factory. The family home was a 14-sq-m room in a kommunalka--a communal apartment where kitchen and toilet facilities were shared by a number of families. He left Tbilisi for Moscow in the late 1940s to study Arabic. Another neighbor headed for Moscow at the same time--his future wife Laura. They were soon married and later had two children, Alexander and Nana...
Space allocation in the departments features lounge areas on each floor. The Linguistics Lounge contains a large curved wipeboard, perhaps so that TF's can continue to work during coffee breaks. "The new offices definitely make [Boylston] more communal," according to Mann. This openness comes at the expense of office space, however, which was significantly reduced for all of the departments. According to Ms. Randall, however, each of the departments had input into their own areas. "We met with each of the five departments, and they put together a design team including professors and grad students." The architects worked with...
...longer and longer periods of time. Meanwhile, a fast-paced hightechnology culture may also have contributed to the withering of House communities. Students are now used to grabbing lunch on the fly; they're habituated into spending hours alone in front of the computer. They do not possess a communal mindset...
...keycard, suddenly they can get into people's rooms with ease. Again, I think the benefits to safely from universal access outweigh this concern. A stronger argument is that people actually like leaving their doors unlocked because it makes them feel more at home, fostering a more comfortable and communal atmosphere...