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...spoils of a successful capital campaign and strong endowment growth turned deficits into new spending opportunities, Knowles pursued some of the University’s most successful construction projects in recent decades. He refurbished the dormitories in the Old Yard, converted the Freshman Union into the Barker Center, and laid the plans for new government buildings that opened...
...Pompidou and National Library offer a morbid look at modernization, Tokyo knows how to mix tradition with transformation. Shrines are married seamlessly to the city landscape, the modern buildings are marked with ancient Japanese touches like glass panes that imitate noren (a traditional cloth), and midtown high-rises are laid out in patterns that replicate ancient rock garden principles. The food echoed this fusion. I traveled nearly 7,000 miles expecting to be blown away by exoticism but I was equally overwhelmed with nostalgia. My dichotomous experience of food in Tokyo, encapsulated and revealed by breakfast at Tsukiji, echoed exactly...
...more perfect union. And so it was rather shocking to hear Obama speak - stripped down and hope redacted - in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on April Fools' Day, his peroration transformed into a Clintonian pledge to get up every morning as President and devote himself to the single mothers, the laid-off workers, "the working families of Pennsylvania...
...before the investigating tribunal to answer more questions about what he admits were "unusual" financial arrangements. But, provided he gets through that, his legacy as a transformational leader is secure. Nor should anyone assume he's finished on the political stage. Minutes after his resignation speech, bets were being laid in Dublin that the next president of the European Union will be known as Bertie...
...during a quarrel with his brother and business partner, Godun, that he cuts off his sibling's tongue with a kitchen knife. Later, Ncolela's wife, Hlubi, is found with her throat slit and her breasts severed from her body. Although Godun is the prime suspect, no charge is laid, and the feuding brothers continue to run their Soweto-based security company together...