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Estrada graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelors degree from Columbia in 1983. He went on to graduate magna cum laude from HLS in 1986, where he edited the Harvard Law Review...
This stylelessness is intentional on the firm's part, and Rashid, in particular, scorns architects who return constantly to the same design language. "Architecture is much more complex than a formal statement or a symbolic gesture," he says in Asymptote's book-cum-manifesto, Flux. "What we are most focused on is building inspired worlds, be they domestic, institutional, urban or digital." And in a world where boundaries are blurring, we might need all four at once...
...Rana, the aristocrat-cum-bistro entrepreneur, is doing just that. "Suddenly people are thinking, 'Oh, my God.' We are all frightened to live our normal lives. Even to have parties?how can you enjoy yourself when you never know when someone is going to throw a bomb over the wall?" Rana says he tries to keep his usual routine, but has taken to using personal bodyguards. Nor is such insecurity confined to Kathmandu's ?lite. "Most people are aware that Kathmandu is going to be the battlefield," says Devendra Ale, a manager at the Center for Victims of Torture, which...
...mercifully warm refuge from the icebound expanse was the 117-meter, scientific-cum-tourist ship Akademik Ioffe, with its hot breakfasts and convivial bar. In a place where 15-story glaciers regularly shed apartment-size chunks into the ocean, I was glad of this sanctuary. I gingerly asked Kathy, the expedition's kayaking instructor, how long I would survive in the near-freezing water if I fell in without wearing a wet suit. "About six minutes or so," she said...
...Summa cum laude honors were down 10 from last year’s total...