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WILLIAM H. WAXMAN Santa Rosa, Calif...
Newsom was introduced last night by Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck, who wedded her co-Master Dorothy A. Austin last summer. Eck defended Newsom’s issuance of more than 4,000 same-sex marriage licenses by comparing it to the actions of Rosa Parks during the civil rights movement
...drawings based on organic forms or made from flexible materials, like David Greene's witty Living Pod. The point of such work was to unlock the imprisoning grids of Modernism, to make the soap bubble as plausible a standard for construction as the cube. For their 1967 Villa Rosa project, the Viennese architects who call themselves Coop Himmelb(l)au proposed a dwelling made of attachable spherical modules. In the same era the British architect Graham Stevens produced the first inflatable structures, things so cool they found their way into early James Bond films...
...social studies concentrator in Winthrop House, originally from Santa Rosa, Calif. Andrew is worried that entering the political cemetery that is having a Crimson column may be a sign that he is no longer relevant. With “Community Politics” he will cling to whatever relevance he has left and try to contribute to the dialogue on campus, about campus, on alternate Tuesdays...
Rimington remained anonymous until 1992, when she was appointed MI5's first female director general. Previously the position was so sub-rosa that the agency didn't even acknowledge it existed, but in an attempt at post--cold war openness and, Rimington suspects, a fit of self-congratulatory pride at hiring a woman, Rimington was outed by her own government. "People were astonished," she says, laughing. "Particularly my neighbors who just thought I was a quiet old lady." Being the first public face of a counterespionage agency made her a high-value target for terrorists--the I.R.A. was very active...