Word: predictabilities
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...hate to answer these questions because whenever I try to predict the future I’m always wrong. But I definitely see myself as a cop for the next few years. It’s in my blood...
Actually, it's the biggest U.S. project of Rem Koolhaas, the influential Dutch architect-thinker and hipster-polemicist. "For me it's a building that accommodates both stability and instability," he says. "The things you can predict and the things you can't." What he means is that the library is designed to accommodate whatever new technologies and purposes it may have to serve in the future. And Koolhaas is somebody who understands all too well the power of things you can't predict. The library, which opens officially next month, is not just a new symbol for the city...
...Nick Sparrow, managing director of the polling company ICM, urges a little caution, though. Right now, he says, people conflate the E.U., the euro and the constitution (still being negotiated) into "a big blob of Europe," which means it's hard to predict how they'll feel about the constitution after an exhaustive campaign. But still they fear the blob. Cummings, who has been present recently at focus groups testing themes to fight the constitution, says people voice anti-E.U. views spontaneously and with a vehemence that leaves the government little to work with. "The only way Blair wins...
...SOSKIN: I’ve read so much Ebert that I could predict his star ratings in my sleep. Any film with one of the following elements—good characters, an intriguing plot, or a noble message—gets at least two and a half stars, regardless of its other deficiencies; any film with two of the elements gets at least three and a half stars, even if it’s short on the third element (usually plot). Hence, poor Roger spends his days showering praise on dragging, decently acted message movies like Monster and The Insider...
...third class of peace rumors predict that one or the other of our allies will make a separate peace, leaving us with the sack. This is an old device for creating distrust and disunity between allies. Since the first of March this rumor has circulated about every one of our allies. At the present time it is Russia who is reported about to sell us down the river...