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...England native settles into her Prescott Street digs, it seems likely that Nathans will eventually alter more than just the FDO floor plan...
Many of the familiar claims against Bush are off target. It is doubtless embarrassing to the President to hear his brother Prescott questioned about his work for West Tsusho, a firm with ties to the Japanese criminal underworld. But it is wrong to think that such activities tell us any more about George Bush's character than the shenanigans of Billy Carter told us about Jimmy's. On the contrary, the thin quality of these brother's-keeper charges may actually have underscored the perception that the President has uncommon good sense...
...imperial: the epic advance of civilization against barbarism; the conquistador bringing the cross and the sword; the red man shrinking back before the cavalry and the railroad. Manifest Destiny. The notion that all historians propagated this triumphalist myth uncritically is quite false; you have only to read Parkman or Prescott to realize that. But after it left the histories and sank deep into popular culture, it became a potent myth of justification for plunder, murder and enslavement...
...brotherhood that often operates behind a shield of what appears to be legitimate business fronts. According to Japanese press reports, one such business is West Tsusho, a Tokyo-based real estate firm that has bought into two American companies with the help of an unusually well-placed U.S. middleman: Prescott Bush Jr., 68, the President's elder brother...
...street and turns to address the Carpenter Center," according to a statement by the architects. It also completes LeCorbusier's site circulation plan, a ramp which begins on Quincy St., continues through the Carpenter Center, and which will extend into the new Werner Otto Hall courtyard and down to Prescott St. by means of an exterior stair...