Word: simpsonitis
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...19th century works, reopened May 25 after a four-year and some $50 million transformation by Michael Hopkins. Piccadilly Gardens, remodeled by the British landscape design firm EDAW, and including the celebrated Japanese architect Tadao Ando's first British building, opened in June. Also in June came Ian Simpson's sleek, sandblasted-glass-clad $43.5 million Urbis, which will house a museum dedicated to the history of cities. It inaugurated the new Millennium Quarter, an area that was once Manchester's medieval heart that long ago stopped beating. Later this month the Commonwealth Games will begin with an opening ceremony...
...April 1, first-year law student Matthias Scholl sent an anonymous e-mail to classmate F. Michelle Simpson, who had filed a complaint with the school about Camara’s use of the slur on the website, and to classmate Olufunke G. Bankole...
...next day when 80 first-year students—a “section” that takes introductory classes together—discovered fliers bearing swastikas, profanities and other anti-Semitic statements in their mailboxes. The fliers also contained reprints of the then-anonymous e-mail sent to Simpson and Bankole...
...Simpson said that she immediately responded to his in-class apology...
...detractors, these are all at least debatable criticisms. And while West certainly isn’t unique among Harvard professors for his professional slumming (ask Marge Garber, fresh off a book about sex and real estate, or Alan Dershowitz, who took time off to defend O.J. Simpson and Mike Tyson), his relentless pursuit of celebrity and insatiable appetite for publicity sets him apart from the field—look at Friends of Cornel like P. Diddy and Mumia Abu-Jamal. That Summers chose to begin cleaning house with West might have been ham-handed and politically inept, but it wasn?...