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...Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Canadian graphic designer Bruce Mau collaborated to create this definitive anti-coffee-table book, an eccentric and exhaustive assemblage of Koolhaas' building designs, jottings and musings. It even has pages of charts showing how his practice has fared over the years. It was the first book ever to have a launch party at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. And no wonder. Squat, garishly silver and with photos that look more like they were taken for a home photo album than an architectural manifesto, it's designed to be dipped into, flicked through...
...including the future luminaries Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall), treating each, says Morell, "as if he were Paris handing Aph ro dite the prized apple." During World War II, he ran a British spy network against the Germans in East Africa. Later he used his intelligence skills against the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya...
...white insurance man named Bob Muzikowski. The very white downtown corporations are persuaded to do the right thing, and since team names are to be those of African tribes, by mad and wondrous logic there are the Northwestern Mutual Life Pygmies, the Northern Trust Maasai, the Morgan Stanley & Co. Mau Maus and the First Chicago Near North Kikuyus...
...assessment marked the end of the era of Mau-Mauing Westerners into a chic guilt. The World Bank, the IMF and the so-called donor countries made it clear they wanted to wean African countries from thinking of aid as a permanent fact of life. Part of the trend, especially in West Africa, has been to move African executives trained at the World Bank into key decision-making posts within national governments. The Ivory Coast's Prime Minister, Alassane Ouattara, for example, worked for the IMF for nearly two decades before taking a post at home...
Admittedly, mau-mauing is a dubious tactic, but the sad fact is that politics have changed: If we want to make our representatives listen to us, we have to hit them with weapons they understand. Unresponsive politicians would learn quickly that ignoring constituents with cameras, voices and energy does not pay. This tactic forces our politicians, who are widely perceived as disconnected to citizens, to connect or be burned...