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...architecture firm Office dA to conduct a feasibility study last fall. But when the firm’s designers drew up conceptual sketches for a pub that had a more modern feel, students—both those involved with the project and those consulted in focus groups—expressed a desire for a more traditional pub, according to Project Manager for Loker Commons Planning and Program Development Zachary A. Corker ’04. Miller Dyer Spears (MDS)—the Boston-based architecture firm that renovated the Adams House Dining Hall in 1997—was thus...
...wins him business praise, it makes many fellow college coaches, and the loud legion of Duke basketball haters (check out the "Anti-Duke Manifesto" on the Web. Bring a sandwich; it's nearly 6,500 words long), quite uncomfortable. During the 2005 NCAA tournament and into this year, American Express featured Krzyzewski in an ad campaign: "I look at myself as a leader who just happens to coach basketball," he says, standing in Duke's revered Cameron Indoor Stadium. Critics complained that the extra exposure is a recruiting advantage. "It's inconsequential," Krzyzewski says. "We've had more national players...
While al-Maliki at least tries to present himself as a unifying figure, railing against Sunni insurgents and Shi'ite militias, many of his partners in the government are blatantly sectarian. Political leaders express outrage over the atrocities committed against their own sect but won't acknowledge that the other side, too, is bleeding. They often dismiss those wounds as self-inflicted. After the bombing of the Samarra shrine, many Sunni leaders told me the blast was the work of Shi'ite agents provocateurs working in concert with Iranian intelligence operatives. Likewise, Mahdi Army commanders routinely accuse Sunni insurgents...
...rights of workers have to tread carefully if they want to stay in business, people gathering to take in stray cats or protect pandas can operate freely. The coverage in the Chinese media served as a stark reminder of how seldom people in China are allowed to express similar outrage when it comes to cruelty toward other people...
...American politics, prospective candidates are never supposed to express unbridled enthusiasm and firm commitment to run too early in an election cycle, for fear of looking over eager or perhaps just peaking too soon. The way you're supposed to run for President, for instance, is to quietly make trips to Iowa and New Hampshire, campaign for a local Iowa candidate or two on a weekend, hire a few staffers and of course wait as long as you can before you actually declare you're running...