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What the Menil made clear was that light was going to be one of Piano's chief materials. His best buildings are elegant variations on the idea of transparency. His Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, just five adjacent bays with travertine walls, is one of the most gratifying art-exhibition spaces in the world. But not everything Piano touches turns out as nicely. In pre-construction models, his New York Times headquarters looked delicate almost to the point of evanescent--quite a trick for a Manhattan skyscraper. But in the execution, the ceramic rods Piano devised to screen the glass...
...market cap of $95 billion, Genentech--of which Roche has owned a 55% majority stake since 1990--has produced some of the most cutting-edge best sellers on the pharmaceutical market today. Its pipeline remains one of the industry's most promising. In the past, Roche always applied a light touch to this golden goose, but this summer it became too tempting for Schwan. On July 21, in what will probably amount to a hostile takeover, Roche offered $44 billion for full control of the San Francisco--based firm...
...posse member, I politely asked if it was proper etiquette to sing along to our own music. "Oh yeah," he assured me. "If you don't feel it, how can you expect anyone else to?" I told him I loved the song with the sample of "Blinded by the Light" and asked him to play it again. I was becoming a very good posse member...
ACTA President Anne D. Neal ’77 said she hoped members of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s chief governing board, would reconsider their stance in light of the candidates’ comments...
...should not put a price on student safety. Finally, the Staff’s view of campus security neglects to address the way in which this is a gender issue. Female undergraduates face far more threats to their safety and are assaulted at much higher rates than men. Blue light stations provide little consolation for the real fear women regularly face at night as they walk alone through pitch-black streets, passing threatening alleys every few yards. Surely, women must take some degree of responsibility for their personal security—a pitfall of some women’s advocacy...