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...site that no one seems to have noticed before: the end of a great imagined axis across the Thames, with Wren's dome of St. Paul's at the opposite end. It is not an effort of heroic originality. It doesn't strut or blow or, like I.M. Pei's Louvre entrance, invoke the Pyramids of Egypt. It is not a rerun of noble history but an adaptation, a conversion job, of something very large...
...reflects a new approach by the architect, Henry N. Cobb of Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners, who intended the earlier proposed building to blend into the residential area on the edge of the Harvard campus...
Chan, of course, is a smallish, sweet-smiling man whose sense of humor irresistibly enlightens his martial artistry. In Shanghai Noon he's a guard in China's Forbidden City who intrudes himself on a mission to rescue Princess Pei-Pei (Lucy Liu), who, avoiding an arranged marriage, has run far, far away to Carson City, Nev. There she is enslaved by Lo Fong (Roger Yuan), an unredeemable bad guy who is exploiting Chinese railroad workers, smuggling dope and demanding a ransom...
...Teng Xiao-Pei...
Harvard does not characteristically take the lead on issues like distance learning, Pei said, instead choosing "a measured approach...