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...down." Now 4% of British farmland has gone organic and the food company Charles formed to provide a market for organic produce, Duchy Originals, had sales last year of $70 million (all profits to his charities). His attacks on soulless modern architecture have resonated with the public - Poundbury, a model village he developed using traditional materials and modern ideas about mixing rich and poor, is popular with residents - and alongside the work of others, may have influenced politicians. Hank Dittmar, head of the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, says Charles' conviction that cities should be built to human...
...include the mayor of Tirana, Edi Rama, in your list of European Heroes. You praise his campaign to paint hundreds of buildings in the city in tutti-frutti colors, but the owners and residents were not even consulted and could not oppose the mayor's ukase. Is that your model of a political hero in a democratic society? While pursuing that caprice, he left the water, sewer and electricity networks in dire condition. You're right that he has leveled hundreds of illegal buildings, particularly in the city center, but these were mostly houses of poor and powerless people...
Howard Dean's campaign blog, run by Mathew Gross, may be the perfect example of both the potential and the pitfalls of high-profile blogging. At its peak, blogforamerica.com drew 100,000 visitors a day, yet the candidate was beaten badly in the primaries. Still, the Dean model isn't going away. When another political blogger, who goes by the nom de blog Atrios, set up a fund-raising link on his site for Kerry, he raised $25,000 in five days...
...men’s club,” Shemtov says. The walls are covered in an ornate, patterned fabric, and a dark wood armoire feels very Renaissance. Embellishing the room are various tchotchkes from Shemtov’s collection, like a 17th century portable lap desk, a model foot from a shoemaker, and Chinese porcelain urns. Not all the bedrooms are as baroque. “While Baruch’s more about the overall feel of a room, I’m more interested in using the space in the most effective way,” explains Tines...
...with furry white Mukluks and a fur parka. She slips into the bedroom to change. Soon, she is padding around the suite in bare feet with red pedicured toes. She is Elizabeth R. Whitman ’06, the CEO of Lewis Albert Corp., as well as the fit model for the collection...