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Around Cambridge, Sert’s use of beton brut—French for “raw concrete”—and his unmistakable Modernist style continue to raise the ire of the red-brick-and-ivy set, as many of his projects did when they were first built. The designer of Peabody Terrace, the Holyoke Center, the Science Center and the Carpenter Center (with Le Corbusier as lead designer), Sert occupies the role of Harvard’s most influential architect...
...list voluntarily. More than two dozen states still maintain their own lists. On Friday, an appeals-court victory for the Federal Communications Commission in a similar suit encouraged the FTC to believe it will ultimately win in court. Either way, the telemarketers won't easily shrug off public ire. "All the telemarketers will have done is increase [the list's] size by 50%," FTC chairman Timothy Muris told TIME. But the fight could take months--at least--as the courts weigh consumer-privacy claims against constitutional protections on commercial speech. For now, do-not-call remains on hold. --By Eric...
...critic and the most prominent advocate for Palestinian independence in the U.S.; of leukemia; in New York City. A fierce critic of Israel and U.S. Middle East policy, the Jerusalem-born author and scholar advocated a single, binational state for "dispossessed" Palestinians. Though he repudiated terrorism generally, he drew ire for his refusal to condemn specific violent acts by Palestinians. The author of the influential study Orientalism, which argued that Westerners distorted and demeaned Middle Eastern culture by stereotyping, Said lived most of his life in the U.S., married a Quaker and for a time reviewed music for the Nation...
...found a kindred spirit of President Bush in the most unlikely of places: that hotbed of crunchy-granola liberalism, Seattle. Bush’s alter ego appeared in an Associated Press photo, brandishing a placard that proclaimed, “NO ESPRESSO TAX!” His ire was directed at a 10-cent tax on espresso drinks that would have paid for an early childhood education program. I wondered, for a moment, why someone would get so hung up about a miniscule tax that would have funded such an impeccably good cause. But of course, this...
...expenses associated with the cleaning of bathrooms by the outside janitors ends up in the hands of UNICCO’s management—not Harvard student workers and captains. Moreover, UNICCO’s poor record in matters of wages and benefits has frequently incurred the ire of its workers and labor advocates, as evinced by last October’s widespread strikes...