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...square foot building adds 11,000 square feet of new gallery space to Harvard's museum system in a way few people ever imagined a campus dominated by Georgian architecture would...
Designed by award-winning British architect James Stirling, the Sackler is surrounded by a vast array of buildings of architectural and aesthetic importance. Indeed, perhaps nowhere in America is there such a concentrated collection of historically significant buildings. Harvard has it all from the early American Georgian Massachusetts Hall to Stirling's post-modernist Sackler...
...Massachusetts Hall: Harvard's first architecturally important building was the fifth built on campus. What now houses the president's offices and is also a freshmen dorm was built for 3500 pounds sterling as dormitory and classroom space. It is a simple, unostentatious Early Georgian building designed for use and dignity, not for show...
...oppressed people fairly." Shevardnadze's toughness earned him some enemies. Borodin recalls an assassination attempt in the early '70s that prompted the party secretary to employ bodyguards. Shevardnadze has been implicated in reports of torture in Georgia prisons. In documents published in the U.S. nine years ago by Georgian dissidents, he was linked to special "pressure cells," where inmates were assaulted by other prisoners with the blessing of the authorities...
...jogger, Shevardnadze installed an exercise room and a sauna in his home and threatened to fire overweight officials unless they got into shape in a matter of weeks. Shevardnadze has said his hobbies are beekeeping and tending his private vineyard. He is well read in the Russian and Georgian classics and has even scribbled a bit of lyric poetry. Shevardnadze and his wife Nanuli, a journalist, have a daughter Manana, in her 30s, and a son Paata, in his late 20s, but as Nanuli once confided to Borodin, family life takes a backseat to her husband's work...