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...video clips include segments of Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 talking about freedom, actor Whoopi Goldberg on race, Jones discussing music, poet Maya Angelou speaking about the black diaspora and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan discussing Africa. Appiah and Gates also have a clip on the encyclopedia's origins...
...archaeologists and tourists alike, the monumental ruins of Mesoamerica are humbling testimony to the complex civilizations that once flourished there. Even the names of these peoples evoke power and mystery: Aztecs, Maya, Zapotecs, Toltecs, Olmecs. But of all the great pre-Columbian metropolises that dot the region, arguably the most magnificent of all belonged to a people who remain nameless. The Aztecs, who took over the area some 25 miles north of modern Mexico City in the 15th century, were convinced it was built by supernatural beings. Their name for the city, which we still use: Teotihuacan, or Place...
...Maya S. Turre '00, of Dunster House, complains that "at least half the time half the computers aren't working in either of the two labs...
...Maya Lin, sculptor, furniture designer and architect of Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial: "Pennsylvania Station in New York City, which I only know from photographs but which remains to me one of the great architectural losses of our time...
DIED. HARRY WEESE, 83, the Chicago architect who designed Washington's imposing and functional Metro subway system and championed one of the city's most controversial markers, Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial; in Manteno, Ill. His Chicago landmarks include the towering Time & Life Building and a restoration of the Field Museum...