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...Four Seasons restaurant, which also tries to encapsulate natural beauty with the 1970s sleek urbanity. In trying to "contextualize" their dining halls, Eliot, Quincy and Mather integrate their natural environment into their dining environment by hinting at the presence of that other environment through windows. Currier forces diners to confront the otherness of the external world by centering the dining environment around a fabricated version of the natural world, a bizarre oasis (several artificial-looking plants and a fountain). It is an amateur echo of the Four Seasons' Autumn Room (where tables are centered around a "grove" of cherry blossoms...
Military rule is no solution to the problems that presently confront Pakistan. While the elected government should be held responsible for its inability to meet the demands of its constituents for good governance, political stability and economic development, the military is equally, if not more, culpable, since it was responsible for dictating and overseeing the framework under which it handed over power in 1988. Sharif himself was handpicked by the military and installed in power not once, but twice through manipulated elections. Tutored by his military mentors, it is but natural that Sharif behaved more like a civilian despot than...
With Bill Bradley running for president [CAMPAIGN 2000, Oct. 4], Americans have the opportunity to elect a man of extraordinary stature, brilliance, experience and, above all, wisdom. Rather than insulting us with the usual glitz and pizazz, Bradley challenges us to understand and confront the real issues. NANCY McK. CRIBARI Rowley, Mass...
...there, to be awake and yet not be awake, to be aware of his surroundings and at the same time be oblivious to them? The more Damasio puzzled over what had happened to the patient during an epileptic seizure, the more he felt compelled to confront a much larger question: What is it about the human brain and its networks of neurons that give rise to consciousness...
Students aren't yet familiar with their neighbors and therefore less likely to confront an unknown face in the hallway, said Riley, who advises all students to lock their doors...