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...hula end. The man on the opposite side--the serene, economical, subdued side--would have to be Japanese architect Tadao Ando. If Gehry's signature form is a whiplash, Ando's is a broad, flat plane. Gehry's best-known materials are titanium and glowing steel. Ando's is pale gray concrete...
...will kill people in Akihabara," wrote factory worker Tomohiro Kato, 25, in a message posted via cell phone to an online bulletin board on June 8. Then he apparently did just that. Dressed in a pale suit, he drove about 60 miles (95 km) from his home to the popular shopping district and plowed his rented truck into a crowd before leaping out of the vehicle and frantically stabbing innocent bystanders. Seven people were killed in the incident, which followed a disquieting series of random stabbings in recent months in a nation where violent crime is comparatively rare. A Cabinet...
...Elliot's concierges, no request is beyond the pale. Well, almost no request: the company ran into trouble last year when an employee in France reportedly told a journalist posing as a client that he could procure prostitutes and cocaine. For the most part, though, Quintessentially's clients-or members, as the company calls them-simply want to know where to go, and how to get past the velvet rope when they get there. "If you think about the early 21st century, there's more very, very rich people on the planet than ever before who all want that access...
...speech, former University President Lawrence H. Summers posted a terse public statement on his official Web site. The statement stayed on the site for two days before being replaced, after public protest, with a more apologetic rewrite. A copy of the old statement remained available at Google (click the pale word “cached” below a Google search result to see how this works...
...Harvard has a tradition of winning the regatta,” Kovacs said. “It was nice to continue the tradition.” He went on to take fourth place at the national singlehanded regatta in November. But Kovacs’ individual honors of the fall pale in comparison to what he brought to the team in the spring. Along with his crew of three years, senior Elyse Dolbec, Kovacs led the Harvard co-ed team to not one, but two national berths. Kovacs and Dolbec’s second-place finish in the A-division...