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...disintegrated into a brawl and raised the question of whether Howard's toughness (a quality voters admire) was actually brutality. "He has ruined Flight's career for saying things most of the Tory party believes, and I suspect most of the public wants," says Robert Worcester, chairman of the MORI polling agency. By election day Flight will likely be a footnote, and in other respects Howard has been running an able campaign playing on voters' anger with Labour's unfulfilled promises and disaffection with Blair; only 32% of those surveyed by MORI last month said they trust the Prime Minister...
...boasts one of the lowest unemployment rates, the second highest household income, and the fastest rising property values-and that economic muscle is pumping a boom in construction, retailing, fashion and plain old civic pride. "In many ways, this is one of the city's finest eras," says Masahiko Mori, president of Mori Seiki, a machine-tool company that has just relocated its headquarters from a neighboring prefecture to downtown Nagoya...
...professors did offer several explanations. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture Toshiko Mori said that women’s desire to raise families had traditionally represented a barrier to their advancement in the design fields—but she expressed optimism that this might be changing...
...There is a huge attrition rate in my generation,” Mori said. “From my generation down it seems fairly solid. Women are in the profession, working and keeping up with it. It’s just a matter of getting into another wave of a generation...
...third section the Mori show focuses on artists and architects who took buildings apart as a means of arriving at new ways to put them together. In the early 1970s the architect-artist Gordon Matta-Clark would buzz-saw transverse slices out of entire wood and plaster structures, giant incisions that would turn the buildings into a fascinating kind of site-specific sculpture. His work shook up the very idea of a building, a practice carried further by the generation of Deconstructivist architects like Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman and Daniel Libeskind, who came to prominence in the '80s with work...