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...also been a place that only a lucky few have seen up close. But long before he died two years ago, at age 98, Johnson had set plans in motion for the house and its 47-acre surroundings--where over the years he added a number of other high-concept buildings--to be opened to the public after his death. In June the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which owns the site, began to conduct tours for about 60 people a day. Weeks before the tours started, they were booked for the rest of this year...
Throughout high school and college, the concept of “growing up” has fascinated me. I've prided myself having my own checking account since junior high, flying cross-country on my own, and finding my way in new cities. The more experiences I acquired, I reasoned, the easier it would be to segue into independent adulthood...
...Harvard, simply isn’t something we have to worry about. The system in place to keep us well-fed and happy easily masks the situation that most people in the world—and many in this country—face. Hunger is thus an abstract concept, not a daily reality. We think nothing of wine and brie, and, somewhere along the way without realizing it, we begin to assume that we will enjoy these things for the rest of our lives; that to refrain would be strange and maybe even shameful...
...Claiborne, the designer who helped invent American sportswear in the 1970s and who dressed legions of American women headed off to work in that decade died yesterday of cancer at age 78. Claiborne, who founded Liz Claiborne Inc. in 1976, introduced the concept of clean cut career clothing to what is known as the bridge market in department stores, that is the fashion lines between designer and mass markets...
...hoped, when Abe took office, that the Prime Minister grasped the changing Asian reality. He supports the Cool Japan marketing concept that seeks to promote Japanese pop culture like anime and manga abroad -harder to do if your neighbors dislike you - and has said that he aims to make Japan a country where foreigners would want to settle. Abe made a show of immediately traveling to Beijing and Seoul, and recently hosted the Chinese Premier in Tokyo. Those summits have been the high point of his administration, but too often that goodwill has been wasted by chauvinistic outbursts from...