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...avoid Joe Wilson, whose presence at these sorts of things appears to have been written into D.C. liberals' social contract, but all together the wonky audience generated about much heat as Jennifer Lopez's little finger (a unit of measurement known as the "Gigli"). Fittingly, the carpet wasn't even red, but green, and there wasn't champagne but rather some perfectly serviceable California chardonnay that came in boxes. Or you could hit the "yogurt bar." I'm sure the reception in Cannes was different...
Daly Genik, a California-based architectural firm, will transform the Citizens Bank offices in Allston into an interim art facility while the University Art Museums undergo renovations, Harvard announced yesterday. No designs were submitted during the competition process for the contract. But Christopher M. Gordon, the chief operating officer of Harvard’s Allston Development Group, said he expected the firm to submit plans for the Soldiers Field Road property within the next three to four months. Construction is tentatively scheduled for 2007, and the center is expected to open to the public in late 2008. University officials said...
...that's starting to change, spurred in part by hospitals' trying to attract well-heeled customers with generous health insurance. Last month MedAssets, a group purchaser for 2,400 hospitals, signed a contract with United Natural Foods, the nation's largest purveyor of organic products. And two months ago, Health Care Without Harm noharm.org launched a Healthy Food in Health Care pledge campaign for consumers to enlist their hospitals. So far, 47 medical centers have signed on to push for chemical-free food. Says Marie Kulick of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, author of a study on hospital...
...Lonergan. Just as fine have been the cultural calibrations of the project. In working with the artists, Perkins and Croft have had to traverse the country by plane, 4WD and e-mail, signing off on designs while negotiating sensitive copyright issues with Paris; in one case, an artist's contract couldn't be signed until the floodwaters had receded from her remote community. "It's not only a cross-nation collaboration," says Perkins. "It's inter-cultural as well, and then also between the strands of architecture, curatorship and the arts." Not to mention language. English and French were easy...
...should I reward someone who doesn't like the President so they can use funds to try to campaign against the President? Logic says they don't get the contract...