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...planning process that has made little progress since last May.The 500,000 square foot science complex, which will house the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, will be located on the south side of Western Avenue adjacent to the WGBH radio station. It will be designed by Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner, a German firm renowned for its environmentally-friendly modern designs.In an interview Friday, Professor in Practice of Urban Design Alex Krieger, whose company, Chan Krieger & Associates, is helping design open spaces in the Allston campus, said the decision is the first concrete step taken since planners released a report last May outlining...
...Germany, business confidence is at its highest point since May 2000, according to a recent survey, auguring well for the new coalition government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel. In a well-received Davos speech, Merkel promised to introduce greater flexibility into the German economy and attack bureaucracy in an attempt to break out of what she called "our self-inflicted paralysis...
...DIED. FRIEDRICH ENGEL, 97, former Nazi SS officer accused of executing Italian prisoners of war; in Hamburg, Germany. Known in Italy as the "Butcher of Genoa," Engel was handed a seven-year suspended sentence in 2002 after a German court found him guilty of ordering the massacre of 59 Italian naval commandos on the outskirts of Genoa in 1944. A federal appeals court quashed the conviction in 2004 citing a lack of evidence, and ruled that Engel's advanced age prevented a retrial...
...Friday, Harvard released one of its most significant announcements since Summers became president in 2001. University officials unveiled some key details of the planned Allston campus, and they also named German architect Stefan Behnisch as the lead designer for a 500,000-square-foot science complex in Allston that will house the Harvard Stem Cell Institute...
...choice between technocratic solutions to social problems. (How can health-care costs be brought under control? How can the quality of secondary schools be improved?) Just as Cameron, though a Conservative, has positioned himself as Blair's true heir, so Christian Democrat Angela Merkel comfortably heads a German government in which some of the most important ministries are held by Social Democrats. Europe is living through the end of ideology - that same, well, sameness of beliefs among nominally distinct political groupings that Daniel Bell identified in the U.S. almost 50 years ago. Indeed, it is arguable that genuine ideological cleavages...