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What a difference a day makes. On Tuesday Wes Clark was a private citizen considering getting into the race for President. On Wednesday he was a formal candidate. By Thursday he was the Democratic front runner. Imagine how the other presidential contenders feel. Some of them have been out on the campaign trail for more than a year! DENNY FREIDENRICH Laguna Beach, Calif...
...Japan Precedents have been set, and they're not good. In 1974, Gerald Ford-dressed in a pair of borrowed formal trousers that barely reached his socks-met then-Emperor Hirohito. (Ford's own pants hadn't been packed.) And in 1992, the first President Bush famously vomited and collapsed in the middle of a sumptuous Japanese dinner. The current President Bush's 16-hour layover in Tokyo, beginning last Friday, proved more convivial, thanks to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's recent pledge of $1.5 billion to rebuild Iraq...
...Though it's unclear whether a formal referendum is legal, Roh later said he might try to get the law changed to ensure a vote is taken. "I'm ready to step down if I fail to win enough confidence," he said. "It is more important to establish the political culture of taking responsibility and lead national politics in the right direction than to complete my five-year term." His colleagues certainly seemed to take him seriously. On Saturday, Roh's Cabinet and senior presidential staff resigned en masse to take responsibility for the administration's failures. Roh refused...
...There’s a reliability in his work, which is not a very glamorous adjective,” says Mary Daniels, curator of the retrospective with Inés Zalduendo. In addition to his work as an architect, Sert was also an educational innovator, creating the first formal urban design program while dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) during the 1950s...
...need for a new discipline to address the physical dimension of rebuilding post-WWII urban centers brought about the first formal program in urban design at Harvard, and Sert was brought in by the dean of design school. In his time at the Graduate School of Design Sert would create an interdisciplinary program to combine cultural and aesthetic concerns with politics and civil engineering. He would also use his own practice—projects he did for the governments of Cuba, Colombia and Brazil—to provide a model for an emerging field. Professionally and pedagogically, Sert...