Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wall project, you would be amazed, there were 120 different walls--no two were identical," says Shoaib N. Ahmad, a student in the architecture program, which is the largest of Career Discovery's three sections, attracting 80 percent of the students and nearly 75 percent of the instructors...
Urban design projects include analysis of city plans and development of urban areas in foreign countries. For one project, students were presented with an elaborate scenario in Nepal and asked to build housing for Tibetan refugees, taking into consideration the various needs of the population, the different materials available for building and the cultural attitudes in Nepal...
...students do get advice from professional architects in the reviews at the end of each project. Students present their work individually and respond to criticism from three outside professionals. The review process is open to give students a chance to make their own comments, as well as to hear the professional critiques...
...dozens of Hollywood celebrities. Only 5% of the writers cast themselves as enemies or would-be assassins. Others saw themselves as business associates, friends or religious saviors. But the rest acted like spouses or suitors. Says Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist in Newport Beach, Calif., who directed the project: "If you didn't know who the two people were, you would think it was a normal love letter." About 15% of the writers tried to approach the stars personally, usually at their homes...
...influence peddling went virtually unnoticed. Paul Manafort, later a leading campaign adviser to President Bush, used his connections at HUD to ensure funding for an unwanted $43 million rehabilitation of dilapidated housing in Seabrook, N.J. Not only was he a partner in the development firm involved on the project, but he also received $326,000 in fees for his trouble. The matter went unreported for three years. Are there any lessons to be learned from the HUD fiasco? Offered one Washington reporter: "Just because something's silent, that doesn't mean it's asleep...