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Tadao Ando is a committed environmentalist. An architect with no formal training, he's probably best known for the Church of Light in Osaka, Japan. It features no ornament, but when light hits it, the rays form a cross that moves depending on the mood...
...world--Meyer's vampires are as deracinated and contemporary as Rowling's wizards. And people do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there. James Patterson may sell more books, but not a lot of people dress up like Alex Cross. There's no literary term for the quality Twilight and Harry Potter (and The Lord of the Rings) share, but you know it when you see it: their worlds have a freestanding internal integrity that makes you feel as if you should be able to buy real estate there...
...into sacks and gassed to death ... It sounds like a fairy tale. Those who haven't seen this would never believe it. But it's not a legend; it's the truth. Or the time when they beat an old man until he became unconscious, because he didn't cross the street properly. This is already absurd; it's nothing, as long as there won't be Auschwitz ... and a green card ... The end ... When will it come...
...Anyone planning to cross the Atlantic in the foreseeable future knows how expensive Europe has become. After some misinterpreted comments by a French policymaker, the single European currency hit a new all-time high against United States currency last Tuesday: It briefly cost 1.60 dollars to buy a euro. The dollar’s weakness predates the current financial crisis investment banks are fretting about and the prophecy of recession. Driven by gargantuan budget deficits in Washington and compounded by a negative American trade balance, the euro has been gaining ground against the dollar for years...
...result of the 1947 United Nation’s (U.N.) vote to partition Palestine, my grandmother had to flee her country in order to escape violence and persecution. -Climbing over rooftops to avoid notice, my grandmother left her family and risked her life to cross the border from Syria into Lebanon, eventually making her way to Italy. My grandmother is only one of approximately 850,000 Jews dispossessed and displaced from Muslim countries of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf before 1948. Her family had lived peacefully and prosperously in Aleppo, Syria for generations, but after...