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...array of sensations can come over a person fumbling with the water knobs in the shower: a sudden chill, perhaps, or a burning blast. French architect Jean Nouvel reacted on a higher plane. "There's something archaic about turning knobs to make water run," he says. "The[an error occurred while processing this directive] controls should be something you caress rather than manipulate." Thus Nouvel, who designed such innovative buildings as the Torre Agbar in Barcelona and the newly opened Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, had found another design challenge. Upscale home-furnishing stores are now rolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flow Control | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

...police were a “childish and unprofessional effort at collective punishment.” He added that he “resented being told by an unprofessional officer last night that I shared responsibility for my punishment.” L-entryway resident Raymond A. Jean ’08 disagreed. Jean said that by about 4:00 a.m., he and his roommates were informed that they were allowed back in their rooms, and wrote to the Kirkland list that it was “very courteous of them to even stay around that late, let alone tell...

Author: By Nicholas Moy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kirkland Students Left Homeless After Alarm | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

Tennis great Billie Jean King won 12 Grand Slam singles titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Person of the Year | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...Democrats into the House, and they hold only a one-vote majority in the Senate, so it was not "a robust whupping," as Joe Klein so poignantly declared. Democrats should celebrate while they can, since I trust that those who should rightfully govern this country will be back soon. Jean Sember Hawthorne, New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

INAUGURATED. Joseph Kabila, 35, as the Democratic Republic of Congo's first freely elected President in more than 40 years; in the capital, Kinshasa. Kabila-who has served as the country's leader since the assassination of his father, President Laurent Kabila, in 2001-defeated Jean-Pierre Bemba in an electoral runoff in October. Addressing dignitaries alongside the Congo River, Kabila vowed to end the corruption and violence that have ravaged the mineral-rich country: "I can see the Congo of tomorrow carrying the hopes of a renascent Africa," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

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