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...wide concrete wingspread of its flaring roof, it resembles a bird in flight. But more than that, it has an almost maternal quality, one that's re-emphasized by the Fallopian coils of the stairways inside. And the long enclosed tunnel that passengers had to walk from the main terminal to the gates - isn't that like a birth canal leading you to the moment you are launched into the sky? This is, after all, the man who invented the Womb chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eero Dynamic | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

Hysen said that the administration’s main concern regarding J-term housing is the assurance that students on campus are involved in legitimate and productive activities—as opposed to “just letting anyone who wants to go to one meeting a week” stick around...

Author: By Janie M. Tankard, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC Backs Student-Led J-Term Programming | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...spirit of Wall Street. He need only argue the truth: Business is underpinned by certain social norms, which are being undermined. Like TR, Obama should condemn misconduct and not condemn wealth. TR’s theme was that prosperity demands a certain level of trust between Wall Street and Main Street. When the economic elite forget that they are also citizens, the trust between the privately powerful and the rest of the public is breached. When houses are foreclosed after irresponsible decisions, when community banks collapse, when hedge funds don’t recognize what they’ve bought...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: The Year of the Bull Moose | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...Abubakar Yakassai, a former special assistant to Shehu Shagari, President between 1979 and 1983, warned: "People have to be very careful with their utterances not to overheat the polity and create the opportunity for some crazy people in the military to take advantage." But Lai Mohammed, spokesman of the main opposition party, Action Congress, told TIME that while "we must never wish for a coup" and "the worst civilian government is better than the most benevolent military regime," it is true that "we are doing things that 10 years ago would have been a reason for military takeover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigerians Wonder: Could a Military Coup Help Us? | 1/31/2010 | See Source »

Also, Yale has just made a Web site that gives viewers information about the federal grants that Yale faculty have received through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. According to an article on Yale’s main Web site, those grants amount to approximately $121 million since last February...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Around the Ivies Plus | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

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