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...football stadium at Jerez, Spain, follows a similar pattern of broken linearity. The oval stadium seating is topped entirely by a corrugated metal covering, but has its lines interrupted by a pavilion that escalates above the surface. In contrast to the undulating planar surface, the pavilion is a jagged enclosure with the appearance of fractured rock...
...first 17 years of my life things followed a normal, if somewhat predictable, pattern. During the school year I would stay in England, where I’d be the local boy with the bizarrely foreign parents. During the summer I would head back to America, where I’d be the foreign boy with bizarrely local parents. And then, a year and a half ago, I ended up in Cambridge. Not in that “other Cambridge,” surrounded by my English friends and pints of deliciously warm, frothy beer, but in this...
...humanitarian crisis," said Colonel Gal Hirsch, the Israeli army's chief of operations. "The Jenin refugee camp is a military combat position. It was set up that way because the Palestinians decided they wanted to fight us there. There wasn't a massacre there; there was a battle." The pattern of the Israeli attack was frighteningly direct. Helicopter gunships pounded areas where gunmen had taken positions. As the gunmen were chased closer to the camp's center, tanks, bulldozers and troops advanced on the areas that had been abandoned...
...ISAF), a 4,500-man contingent of mostly European peacekeepers. They have brought relative calm to the capital, but a recent series of attacks against ISAF itself, including the attempted rocketing of a barracks full of sleeping soldiers last week, have made locals skittish again. "We're seeing a pattern to destabilize the city, to cause unrest, and to cause people to lose faith in the interim administration and maybe even ISAF," says spokesman Flight Lieutenant Tony Marshall. "We're not going to be swayed by this, but we are vulnerable...
...that somehow he worked so hard to keep me is simply false, just another example, I think, of the pattern of mendacity that I’ve seen over the past few months,” West said...