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...wonder. You sense that he might prefer his buildings to be judged by the same standards by which we "judge" mountains and trees - for their fundamental power and durability, for the ways they seem to spring from the earth. In his pronouncements on architecture there's that note of aesthetic militancy you also heard in Le Corbusier. "In a society that celebrates the inessential,"Zumthor once wrote, "architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language...
Alas, no one can please all the people all the time. And if you needed more convincing that our current president is different from all other presidents, note that even though Clinton's staff also held seders, Clinton himself did not participate. Besides, the thought of Obama in a kippah makes FlyBy weak in the knees...
...season—and her own personal undefeated record—alive but failed after falling behind in the third set and finding herself unable to recover. Princeton took the No. 5 match 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 and the overall contest with the point.But on a positive note, Ko earned her sixth victory at No. 1 with her 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 comeback victory.Rosekrans stunned onlookers in the first set after mounting a comeback from a 4-0 deficit to win the set, 7-5, on an overhead put-away on a lob while approaching...
...true progressivism is its history. As Pat Murphy, the speaker of the Iowa House, and Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal pointed out in a statement lauding the verdict, gay marriage is only the most recent issue on which Iowa has been ahead of the times. They note that our supreme court outlawed racially segregated schools in 1873, almost a century before Brown v. Board, and that Iowa was the first state in the Union to admit a woman to the practice of law, doing...
Some China-watchers see a light at the end of the tunnel for the country's faltering economy. These optimists note that there are mounting signs that the government's stimulus efforts - and in particular the flood of credit unleashed by the Central Bank last November - are beginning to have an impact...