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...DIED. FRANK SANACHE, 86, the last of eight Meskwaki Indians who used elements of their native language to encrypt walkie-talkie communications between American officers during World War II; in Tama, Iowa. Five months after being sent overseas, Sanache was captured by the Germans in Tunisia and spent 29 months in a Polish labor camp. The 2002 film Windtalkers focused on Navajo "code talkers" widely known for formulating the U.S. military code that remained classified and unbroken until 1968. But the Meskwaki were among 18 Native American tribes that served...
...James Cutler, the architect behind the home of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. New Jersey architect-cum-performance artist Adam Kalkin is taking orders for his 2,000-sq.-ft. Quik House kit made from steel and shipping containers and priced as low as $76,000, not including land. And Frank Gehry protege Michelle Kaufmann recently debuted Glidehouse, a moderately priced modular home (averaging 1,350 sq. ft.), so named for a series of sliding panels that hide storage spaces and regulate light and airflow. Although prefabs account for less than 30% of new home construction, they are ushering in affordability...
...Andy J. Frank ’05, president of the Harvard College Democrats, remained unimpressed with the rhetoric of the Bush campaign...
...We’ve heard the same things that he said today about a billion times, but it doesn’t make it true,” Frank said by telephone after watching the speech from his home in Illinois...
...mass mobile-phone use, e-mail, the internet and bloggers - Latham became a lively go-to contributor with a lightning quick ability to turn an idea into newsprint. As far as I could tell, Latham wasn't trying to be a pundit like the Australian's Paddy McGuinness or Frank Devine. But he did want to make his name on the same page by offering solutions to problems. Here was a player, not a critic. In that sense, Latham has more in common with John Howard than either would dare to admit...