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...ended in the early 70s. At that time, Cambridge was widely considered one of the most daring design centers in the U.S. Iconic buildings such as Sert’s Peabody Terrace and Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center rose up in parallel with Harvard’s postwar intellectual boom. Harvard became an architectural rebel, dipping in to new experimental styles and unfamiliar designs in their sprawl across Cambridge...
...crimes in The Hague. Taylor’s presidential term was a “period of darkness and insanity,” according to Sirleaf. She added that her administration “must address the deep wounds of that civil war.” “Postwar countries quickly go back to war, especially in Africa. We must ensure that development contributes to peacekeeping,” she said. Development is a focus for Sirleaf, who has served as a U.N. Development Programme official and a World Bank loan officer. “Three-quarters...
...After This (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 279 pages), she is settled in once more among her postwar Catholics, telling the story of John and Mary Keane and their four children, a family saga that spans three decades, from the end of World War II to the 1970s. Vietnam makes its lethal appearance, and abortion becomes an option that even Catholic girls exercise, but don't come to this book looking for the Beatles or J.F.K. McDermott's preoccupations go much deeper than baby-boom artifacts, deeper even than mere history. What is it, she wonders, that holds together the loose fabric...
Welcome to Postwar (nothing to do with war) British (does Trinidad count as British?) and American (Russian-American, that is) Fiction. In a fair world, this course would be called "Books that James Wood Likes." At Harvard we call it English 168d...
...stance on foreign affairs that is responsible for such heat as the LDP race has generated. But Japanese voters care more about their pocketbooks than they do about Yasukuni. The recovering economy is about to record its longest expansion of the postwar era, but poll after poll shows ordinary Japanese are concerned about a growing income disparity that threatens to divide the country into haves and have-nots. Abe's policies to address the issue are vague, amounting to little more than a plan to provide financial aid for failed entrepreneurs to start up new businesses, or help the long...