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Even people who hate modern architecture--all those featureless skyscrapers bunched along heartless avenues!--can have a soft spot for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the most steadfast Modernist of them all. In his later years, he proposed variations of the same building for every purpose. For office towers and museums, a black steel-and-glass carton. For symphony halls and convention centers? Ditto. For houses? O.K., for houses, something more domestic--a steel-and-glass carton in white. All the same, the best of what he did is still utterly beautiful. Around the lobby of the Seagram Building...
Thank you for the complex portrait of teenage school shooters behind bars [SOCIETY, May 28]. Most of them are not heartless villains. They feel great anguish over their crimes, and often yearn to make amends. Their crimes stem not so much from innate evil as from heedlessness, impulsiveness, mental disorder and immaturity. Which of us would like to receive a lifetime sentence for things we did in our boisterous, unstable youth? ROSWITHA M. WINSOR Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...first glance, Lincoln Electric, the $1 billion Cleveland, Ohio, maker of arc-welding equipment, seems like every other U.S. corporation trying to weather the current economic downturn--heartless. It is slashing overtime, cutting temps and applying an elaborate rating system to assess employee performance. But no matter how bad things get, or how low they score, workers at Lincoln won't flunk...
...www.hotornot.com HEARTLESS FUN Rate people's beauty on a scale of 1 to 10. Cruel, but shockingly fun. If you're really daring, submit your photo and see how hot you're not. Tip: swimsuits improve scores tenfold...
Media organizations are frequently criticized for a heartless approach to the news. Stories that are damaging to a person’s reputation make the front page just as quickly—and many would say even more quickly—as stories that enhance it. At times, readers argue the media should be more hesitant to run articles that injure a person’s reputation—or, if the news must get out, that the subject be left unnamed...