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...back up against the wall or turning into more-compact switchbacks. The two-story foyer is becoming less and less popular too - in an era of tighter purse strings, who wants to heat and cool all that empty space? "Would you rather have the extra volume or a game room upstairs?" asks Ken Gancarczyk, a senior vice president at KB Home who runs the Los Angeles-based builder's architecture group. Buyers, KB is finding, want the room...
That demographic influence extends inside the house too. The great room that first caught on in the early 1990s is undergoing a revival - a large, undelineated family room-breakfast nook-kitchen combination meshes well with attitudes of casualness and flexibility. For years, the bell has been tolling for the formal living room, and that trend is accelerating...
...After months of behind-the-scenes debate, these issues will be the elephants in the room at the G-20 summit meeting of major economic powers due to take place in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Sept. 24-25. Diplomats and analysts say that a growing convergence among nations on the technical details surrounding greater industry oversight may paper over a divisive philosophical gulf. The U.S. and Britain, with their instinctive support and dependence on free-market finance, are increasingly at odds with France and Germany, who are more skeptical about the benefits of unfettered capitalism and hope to win votes...
This really raises some profound questions about the purpose of having books in the Dunster Library in the first place. For decoration? To permeate the hallowed room with an appropriately musty smell? For general authenticity, whatever that word means? Or, just so that the Dunster Library can be called....a library...
...latter reason, allow us to raise another question: is a book really a book if it can't be read? So, if these "objects" are not books after all, then perhaps this room is not a library either. Just sayin'. (Off with the bars...