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...possible fix-it legacy project for his presidency, George W. Bush is returning to Social Security, the retirement program that continues to slide toward insolvency. Meet the new key players in the Social Security game, including a surprising presidential appointee who could outmaneuver the ascendant Democrats. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] THE RAINMAKER WHY HE MATTERS HOW HE'LL PLAY IT Henry Paulson Jr. The Treasury Secretary and Bush's Social Security front man raised eyebrows last week by saying he would set "no preconditions" on the Administration's push to reform. Paulson's statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Social Insecurity | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...entirely--as architectural theorists, deadpan funny conceptual artists and intellectual bomb throwers. In all those roles, they made a name for themselves by questioning the most basic premises of architecture. It would be hard to imagine, for instance, a more thorough rethinking of what makes a building than a project they completed for the Swiss Expo 02. The Blur Building, as it was called, was a "structure" made entirely of water vapor, produced by a framework of 31,000 computer-controlled spray nozzles configured on a multilevel platform in the middle of Lake Neuchâtel, near the town of Yverdon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: First Thinking, Then Building | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...partner two years ago--has been chosen to redesign large parts of the glamorous marbledom that is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City and to convert an abandoned elevated railway line in lower Manhattan into a very unusual park. They had already completed a housing project in Gifu, Japan. And on Dec. 7 their first major building in the U.S., the new home of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), will open on a prominent waterfront site as the first segment of the city's grand scheme to redevelop Boston Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: First Thinking, Then Building | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...time of the Whitney retrospective, Diller and Scofidio had already been at work for two years on the ICA project. So for all their ambivalence, they were plainly well on their way to making peace with the idea of museums--or at least the ones they could have a hand in shaping. Plus, they say, there had been a generational shift in the people who run the art world. "People were coming into institutions," explains Diller, "who were rethinking the contemporary museum." One of the people she's talking about would have to be Jill Medvedow, the cheerful locomotive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: First Thinking, Then Building | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...schools would resegregate. That's what happened in many districts, and the proportion of black students attending nonwhite-majority schools has increased over the past dozen years from 66% to 73%. In some parts of the country, Latino segregation is even higher, according to Harvard University's Civil Rights Project. Many school districts have given up trying to break up racial concentrations and instead are working to deal with the achievement gaps that accompany largely segregated schools-- a de facto return to the separate-but-equal idea that Brown v. Board of Ed. sought to abolish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Public Schools Aren't Color-Blind | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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