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...nowhere that cantilevers 54 m across and 18 m above the city's West River Parkway. And then there's the other window, the mirrored one. But we'll get to that later. By now you will have begun to understand that Nouvel's buildings can be hard to pin down. His name is one variant of the French word for new, and he does his best to live up to it. He likes to upend old notions of inside and out, solid and porous, to say nothing of where windows should be or how comfortable you should feel about...
...rooms where centuries of schoolboys have carved their names and a courtyard lined with plaques commemorating thousands of Old Etonians killed in service to their country. The physical setting complements other kinds of apartness the school fosters. Not just the uniform of white tie and black tailcoat, vest and pin-striped trousers, but a collection of customs and slang whose mastery confers membership in the brotherhood. Teachers are "beaks," the three school terms are called "halves," "wet bobs" are rowers, "tugs" are the 70 especially bright King's Scholars, who live together in a house called "College" on reduced fees...
...will have begun to understand that Nouvel's buildings can be hard to pin down. His name is one variant of the French word for new, and he does his best to live up to it. He likes to upend old notions of inside and out, solid and porous, to say nothing of where windows should be or how comfortable you should feel about standing on one over a 60-ft. drop. What Nouvel is doing with his arms over his head is making a little joke about floating in space, but he looks more as though he were about...
...could easily be confused between the names in the news and those on the ballot. They might even wonder which South American country they are in. Former President Alan Garcìa, the pre-election favorite, is easily identifiable, but he has made his opponent a little harder to pin down. While Garcìa, 57, is pitted against retired Army colonel Ollanta Humala, 43, his comments in the waning days of the race make it seem as if he is running against Venezuela's leftist president Hugo Chávez. In his final campaign swing and last-minute...
...this is yet another review of an eagerly anticipated smartphone. And yes, the Motorola Q is fairly similar to high-powered consumer phones in other parts of the world. (It looks like a Palm Treo that's been flattened with a rolling pin.) But the Q brings the first-ever pairing of Microsoft's Smartphone operating system - which comes with Outlook and Pocket MSN, including Hotmail and messaging, built in - with a QWERTY keyboard that makes text messaging a lot easier...