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This year, students at the Graduate School of Design will be flying their designs out of the classroom and into the capital of Northern Ireland. Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Richard Sommer and the students in his studio class “Belfast Recast” have developed proposals to help the city overcome a past fraught with sectarian conflict. The 12 students’ most controversial proposal is a plan to build a new parliament building in midtown Belfast. The body’s current home, in Stormont, is closely associated with unionist—mainly Protestant?...
...scandals without a stain. Over the past three weeks he pulled out all the all the stops and called in favors from old friends. Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair endorsed him in a campaign video and he cleverly timed plaudits for his central role in the Northern Ireland peace process to maximize publicity...
...even an end to the use of Shannon airport by the U.S. military could be up for grabs. Nationalism may also be a central issue for the first time in decades. Most parties in the Irish Republic have a historical aspiration for the reunification of their country with Northern Ireland. Sinn Fein, which in this election drew attention not as a radical fringe party linked to the IRA but a political force that might emerge holding the balance of power, will try to use its handful of seats to turn that aspiration into something tangible...
...lush hillside in northern Taiwan, the late dictator Chiang Kai-shek smiles benevolently-over and over. Here he is astride a horse or brandishing a book; there he stands, extending a fatherly arm to the busloads of visitors that show up daily to see this collection of statuary, located next to the Generalissimo's mausoleum 40 km southwest of Taipei. Plaques inform inquisitive onlookers where each piece originated, but none of the candy-coated descriptions explain that this collection came into being because these statues are unwanted and have been dismantled from schools, colleges and municipal buildings across the island...
Much remains a mystery about Fatah al-Islam, the Palestinian-led Sunni Muslim fundamentalist faction that sprang up six months ago and is at the center of Lebanon's latest fighting. What is known, however, indicates that the group, based near the northern coastal city of Tripoli, is a product of past Middle East conflict, a manifestation of present unrest in Lebanon and an ominous sign of future turmoil throughout the region...