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...building was designed by Morphosis, the Santa Monica-based firm of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, and represents Mayne's first move into New York or for that matter the East Coast. He makes buildings like no one else's, with complex orchestrations of space and form and a tough luster that's unmistakably his. The folded and perforated metal skin of his project for Cooper Union stands out strongly in its neighborhood of mostly brick and masonry buildings, but it also speaks to the local heritage of loft industry - and of thinking outside...
...There is a church in the Colaba district of Mumbai named the Afghan Church. This was built in 1847 by the British in memory of the soldiers killed in the unsuccessful Afghan war between 1838 and 1843. It will be highly embarrassing for a Nobel Peace Prize - winning U.S. President if he has to build an Afghan Church in Arlington National Cemetery. Thomas Chaze Mumbai...
...look very far into issues up for debate in Congress to recognize the boldness of this claim, in the midst of a bitter deadlock over health-care reform and the maddening twists of Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) Lieberman himself would be a strong candidate for the prize of highest unintentional irony in a public statement for some of his recent comments, but for now his fellow Yale graduate Kerry has done enough. The notion that in such a polarized, anything-goes political climate any legislation would be a “100 percent” guarantee seems grandiose.Specify...
Sixty-one years after his hallmark book “Economics: An Introductory Analysis” was first published, Paul A. Samuelson, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in economics, died in his home on Sunday after a brief illness...
Weitzman noted that when Samuelson won the Nobel Prize, he was reminded to take his acceptance speech seriously...