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Rockwell doesn't disavow his affection for theater. His mother was a choreographer--some of his happiest memories are of community theater with his four older brothers in Deal, N.J. After studying architecture at Syracuse University and the Architectural Association in London, he worked for a lighting designer before pursuing architecture proper. "Theater is an interesting laboratory for what we're doing as architects," he says of his firm. "We love to do buildings that are permanent as much as the next person, but I think that permanence can be stifling. Creating something that is genuinely delightful and engaging...
...attempts by their Core Committee to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our matriculation here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common interest in intellectual advancement to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Renunciation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of academia, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends...
...excusable; aside from the single “Been There, Done That,” Dre’s lineup of inept guest artists and producers proved one of the most disappointing efforts of his career. Fortunately, The Wash is one compilation he won’t have to disavow anytime soon. Given that Dre and Snoop Dogg co-star in the movie, it’s no surprise to see them open and close with duets (“On the Blvd.” and “The Wash,” respectively). The beats are little...
...Tiananmen Square. The last time, in November, she brought her four-year-old daughter and unfurled a yellow banner reading, "The Falun Law Is the Universal Law!" Police jailed Liu and threatened to dispatch her to one of China's labor camps. Her terrified parents begged her to disavow her beliefs. Her husband smacked her. At work, her boss threatened to fire her. Then someone brought her weeping daughter to jail, and Liu's will broke. She promised in writing never to demonstrate against the government and for Falun Gong again. She thought her ordeal was over...
...Gang began working in 1996 for a joint venture of Carlsberg Breweries, the Danish brewer, and quickly rose to oversee logistics for all of northeast China. Authorities last year sentenced Chen to a year in a Beijing prison for practicing Falun Gong, and tortured him when he refused to disavow his beliefs, according to relatives. Chen is due for release this week. Once he's free, however, he'll have to look for a new job: Carlsberg is not rehiring him. "If a person can't work, then we have to find someone else," says Wang Hong, head of human...