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Coming in nine points behind Mike Huckabee and over $40 million dollars poorer, Mitt Romney was introduced Thursday night in Iowa by Olympic gold medalist Dan Jansen. Romney's first words to the crowd exemplified the former Massachusetts governor's relentlessly sunny disposition: "Well, we won the silver...
...Born in 1919 to Eurasian parents - his father was a wealthy Muslim-English lawyer, his mother German-Scottish-Sinhalese - Bawa was, yes, raised with that proverbial silver spoon. Cambridge-educated, he enjoyed an aimless youth of profligate spending, sumptuous taste and spiffy automobiles. The title page of Geoffrey Bawa, a seminal Singaporean monograph published to coincide with the London exhibition, is a money shot of Bawa's twinkling Rolls-Royce. Contemporary Donald Friend - a peripatetic, chain-smoking Australian artist and compulsive diarist - grumbled about Bawa's "grand ducal airs...
...suitable sobriquet - I don't know of any Chinese serial killers, so "Chairman Mao" will have to do - I'm led into what feels like an executive boardroom: A haze of sweet cigarette smoke hangs over an oval-shaped table around which sit 16 players. I take a slim silver case from the pile on a tray offered by a waitress. It flips open to reveal a card which is not that of a "killer." I try to avoid breathing a sigh of relief. Then the judge's voice rings out over the sound system, "It's night, everybody close...
...able to go to good schools, there's affordable health care and good paying jobs. If they temporarily located to another community that has those things, you can't reasonably ask them to give up those things and come back. In a way - and this is an odd silver lining out of a destructive storm that nobody asked for - it allows us to leapfrog and make bigger changes than can be done elsewhere. We're now getting to rebuild - in some cases from scratch - our schools, our health care infrastructure, our transportation infrastructure. We now have the opportunity to incorporate...
...earn the school either a D or an F from state education authorities. Last year's troubles, ironically, may have accelerated efforts to reform the school, which a generation ago enjoyed a proud reputation as an educational bulwark for its mostly African-American students. "Absolutely it's had a silver lining," says Cleveland Morley, class of 1968, a Miami businessman and vice chairman of Northwestern's alumni board. "The school and community feel the system cares enough about them again to put in this kind of leadership...