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...Citystep organizers just wanted to make the event as inclusive as possible. The “event formerly known as the ball,” according to special events coordinator Carolyn A. Daly ’05-’06, was held at venues like the Park Plaza and mirrored a punch event—complete with hand-written invitations on the door of every Harvard suite. The Citystep ball was the premier campus fall event before the proliferation of fall House formals, drawing more than 4,000 students some years, according to executive co-producer Meghan...
...dignified piece of tightly woven architecture. Architects Christine Killory and her partner, Chilean-born Rene Davids, have used as their central idea a traditional Latin American form: each two- and three-bedroom unit is built around a small internal patio, and all 13 are arrayed around a central plaza and playground...
...able to balance mounting a defense with pulling strings behind the scenes in the House. But whereas he had been accustomed to just stepping downstairs to the majority leader's spacious suite of Capitol offices after a House vote, dusk last Thursday afternoon found DeLay outside on the Capitol Plaza, waiting at a traffic light to return to his office in the Cannon House Office Building across the street. Just like any other Congressman. --With reporting by Cathy Booth Thomas and Hillary Hylton/ Austin and Perry Bacon Jr. and Massimo Calabresi/ Washington
...lovingly re-created from the original theme park Walt Disney built in Anaheim, Calif., which opened 50 years ago this week. But Walt's vision of idyllic small-town America now has a surprisingly un-Midwestern twist. Inside one Victorian building is Main Street's first Chinese restaurant, the Plaza Inn, crafted as a stylish tea shop from early 20th century Shanghai. The interior has traditional landscapes of the Chinese countryside painted on the walls. The murals have been based on the Disney animated movie Mulan, which was inspired by a Chinese legend. Soon the workers in white hard hats...
...office, the U.S. had followed the hands-off policy advocated by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, a fan of free-market solutions. But after White House Chief of Staff Baker swapped jobs with Regan in February, the Administration began taking a more active role. Less than a month after the Plaza Hotel meeting, Baker unveiled yet another ambitious blueprint for repairing the global economy, this time a plan to defuse the Third World debt bomb. Baker contended that previous stop-gap efforts to solve the problem relied too much on austerity measures that prevented developing countries from rebuilding their economies. Speaking...