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What Hughes makes clear to us at the outset is that, like most any other city, Barcelona is made legible only in the context of its past. And the easiest access to the past is inscribed in the city's profoundly variegated architecture. "The political and economic history of Barcelona," Hughes writes, "is written all over its plan and building." From the small Roman colony known as Barcino founded circa 15 A.D., to the present Olympic-banner festooned metropolis, Hughes carefully recovers the past through an anecdote-laced archaeology. What surfaces is a sense of Barcelona, and the region known...
...Clinton recasts his campaign for the fall, his selection of Gore is only one of several significant moves. The easiest, this week's convention, will be over in a flash. In days that some can still recall, national-party conventions witnessed the heaviest lifting; party bosses actually selected the candidates. Today conventions are little more than nationally televised pep rallies, quickly forgotten junkets that can nevertheless doom a candidate's chances if they deteriorate into party-wrecking brawls. The TV exposure routinely provides the ticket a temporary bounce (4 points in the polls, on average), but the lingering memory...
...Crimson keeps playing the way it has, it is virtually guaranteed a spot in the NCAA tournament. But even though post-season action looks imminent, the Crimson wants to make sure that it has the easiest road possible to the NCAA finals...
...easiest thing to say is, `We need more money,'" says Glazer. But education as a whole, he says, has sufficient funding. The focus needs to shift from how much money is spent toward how that money is spent, he argues...
Take the example of a good friend of mine. Two weeks before the deadline, he had already decided on the easiest way out-- remaining with his current roommates, forming a group of four. Before he knew what had hit him, a gargantuan rooming block of 18 had mushroomed out of control...