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...week, it fueled doubts that Iran was negotiating in good faith. And according to European diplomats, the ruling clerics show no sign that they would agree to the West's bottom line: that Iran permanently abandon development of all nuclear technology that could give the nation the capability to construct an atomic weapon. The lead Iranian negotiator, national-security chief Hassan Rowhani, head of a commission on nuclear policy that reports directly to Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, says, "Terminating our enrichment activities has been our red line and still...
George becomes far too enchanted with the real-life heroics of the Ruesesabagina family, failing to construct characters to whom an audience can relate. Rusesabagina does not demonstrate a profound shift in moral composition: he is constantly good...
...carry out his plans. This exhibition shows quite the opposite. When the shells at first proved too irregular to cast from cement, Utzon drew on a 900-year-old Chinese treatise on architecture, Ying Zao Fa Shi, which taught the pure assembly of standardized elements. His solution was to construct the shells from prefabricated segments of the one sphere, so they could be self-supporting. Utzon had just standardized his plywood interiors, which were to be "assembled like a big jigsaw puzzle in space," when his relationship with the N.S.W. government broke down and he resigned. During the '70s, Utzon...
Harvard received the go-ahead from the city’s Planning Board to construct 328 housing units in the neighborhood along the Charles River last night, despite emotional objections from several residents that included a profanity-laced tirade and the threat of legal action...
There are some who believe that if there is student demand for a service, the market economy will provide. They argue that if the administration were to construct a student center, it might inevitably make the same mistakes it did with Loker Commons. Instead, they say, as long as Harvard brings students to Allston, the city and the market will do the rest. But as Cambridge’s puritanical licensing restrictions have shown—not to mention Harvard Square’s prohibitively expensive rent—the presence of students does not automatically guarantee the presence...