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...LONDON??€”With the hype surrounding the Euro 2004 tournament and the confirmation of the European Union Constitution, football and federalism have united the European continent. I can’t help but feel left out on the sidelines...
...LONDON??€”If you happen to be in London for the summer, and you’re waiting for the No. 49 bus stop at Shepherd’s Bush Green past midnight, you’ll see how hard it is to understand, much less summarize, a city like this in the space of an essay. In between lovely greens, brooding men threaten another with knives; drunken people stagger around looking for a light; forlorn homeless wander past into the dark of the park; someone breaks a car window; friends laugh and urinate on storefronts; the police pass...
This 21st century melting pot not only confounds attempts to condense London??€”more than any other city I’ve lived in—into a guidebook, or capture it in a postcard; it makes London difficult to grasp for even Londoners. My own re-evaluation of London comes at a time when many British seem to be doing the same thing with their country. For the past half-century, the country has been coping with—and reveling in—the realization that it is no longer a sceptre’d isle onto...
...Great Fire in 1666 and the blitz of World War II each destroyed most of the city; rebuilding hasn’t stopped since. In the past few weeks I’ve been doing some rebuilding of my own version of London, and, as these things go, London??€™s been doing some rebuilding of me. But I won’t finish, can’t. There’s too much complexity here, too much living...
...addition, he serves on several other non-profit boards, including London??€™s Courtauld Institute, the New York Public Library and the Goldman Sachs Foundation...