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...veteran conservative activist and founder of the conservative Eagle Forum. Schlafly says she takes hope from the grass-roots "tea parties" being organized against massive government spending across the country. One event in Chicago last week even boasted of turning away GOP chairman Steele, with organizers declaring they'd prefer not to have any elected officials at center stage...
...than 10,000 projects in the 2009 fiscal year. (The dollar amount is 14% higher than the previous year, although the raw number of projects dropped 12.5%.) The thing about earmarks is that they make a politician popular at home, but unpopular on the national stage. While some politicians prefer to keep their overspending quiet, others are proud of their ability to "bring home the bacon." Still, it's safe to say that no one enjoys being skewered in a report with the tagline, "The Book Washington Doesn't Want You to Read...
...Rigorous, ascetic, distilled - these are words repeatedly applied to Zumthor's work, and no wonder. You sense that he might prefer his buildings to be judged by the same standards by which we "judge" mountains and trees - for their fundamental power and durability, for the ways they seem to spring from the earth. In his pronouncements on architecture there's that note of aesthetic militancy you also heard in Le Corbusier. "In a society that celebrates the inessential,"Zumthor once wrote, "architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language...
...awesome as it is to have a stack of Advising Fortnight notepads for jotting down thoughts about how ridiculous Advising Fortnight is, we think we'd prefer this money get spent on... well, practically anything. Here's what came to our heads in the span of 30 seconds...
...backhand, Cao got back on the winning track at No. 5 with a 6-1, 6-2 win, despite feeling a little under the weather, according to Green.“I’ve always had a strong backhand,” Cao said. “I prefer my backhand. It just comes naturally I guess.”Sibilski clinched her ninth singles victory and the overall match for Harvard with a 6-4, 6-3 win at No. 4.“[Sibilski] was a little bit fatigued [from] yesterday’s match...