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...building—from the multi-storied walls of glass to the shiny silver handrails—has a certain sleekness; it’s an Apple product-cum-building. The building’s unscuffed, unmarred, and polished appearance puts the vogue of earthy-colored steel to shame. It’s also a far cry from the weathered red brick to which the Harvard community is so accustomed.Craig Hartman, Design Partner at SOM, San Francisco, and chief designer for the project, says that he remained confident in his sophisticated style throughout the design process, even in initial meetings...
...Harvard and the A.R.T., a university affiliate, have been as nurturing to their artistic development. In fact, most undergrads outside of theater have little notion of what the A.R.T. is besides a clever acronym for the concrete building on Brattle Street.“It’s a shame that students that aren’t involved in theater don’t know about the A.R.T. I’ve met so many students who don’t even know it’s there,” Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) board member Olivia...
...Such shame does not exist elsewhere in the world.' BUGUN, Turkish newspaper, after 13 babies died of infection within 24 hours in one of Turkey's most modern maternity hospitals...
...authors give seven (of course!) common failure patterns, and they are not shy about listing the corporate Hall of Shame. The misbegotten strategies include Staying the (Misguided) Course (Kodak); Misjudged Adjacencies (Oglebay Norton); and Fumbling Technology (Iridium). But most relevant to the current Wall Street subprime crisis is the Green Tree Financial Corp. debacle. The firm made trailer-home ownership more accessible to low- and middle-income consumers. At its pinnacle, the company financed more than 40% of trailer homes, many with mortgages for people with bad credit. In 1998, Green Tree was bought by Conseco for a hefty...
...What a shame that under your photograph of "green Londoner" Cameron commuting on his bike you forgot to tell us that a limousine follows him to carry papers he "cannot put in his pannier." Some "green Londoner," eh? Dennis O'Grady, SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND...