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...that period would come some of the thinking that, as it turns out, has transformed the built world over the past decade or so. Daniel Libeskind was once mostly a paper architect. So was Zaha Hadid. But it was a moment that didn't sit well with the partners who would come together as SHoP in 1996. "Theorizing about buildings had become more important than building them," says Coren Sharples. "If you actually built, you were selling out. It was very disheartening." Adds Pasquarelli: "There were the guardians of culture, and there were the architects who just served clients. There...
...office has several informational meetings about how to write a proposal, how to choose a fellowship, and how to develop a budget. But the fellowships office is not the best place to turn for close, individual attention. Lui says that because she and the other fellowship director sit on selection committees, they are unable to help students with specific applications. Instead, Lui says, “the Houses are the frontline advisors for feedback on drafts.” Each House has its own fellowship tutor to give feedback and advice grant applications, but the number of tutors, as well...
...locate our intellectuals in the academy...They’re usually a type of personality that likes to study and be bookish and sit in nice offices like this,” Maier said. “It’s not the same as a culture where intellectuals are outside the academy...
...Buddhist precepts, he has not called for Tibetan independence from China for more than 20 years; he seeks only autonomy, whereby China could control Tibetans' defense and foreign affairs so long as Tibetans have sovereignty over everything else. But more and more Tibetans in exile ask how they can sit by and practice nonviolence while their homes and families are being wiped out by the Chinese occupation. "Why is he thinking of the future and not the present, the past?" asks an outspoken Tibetan in Dharamsala who once fought with the cia-trained guerrillas violently resisting the Chinese. "I want...
...broke relations with us. But we believe that now that we want to reestablish relations we have to do it in a clear and reasonable framework. We sat down at one table and talked about Iraq [in Baghdad in March 2007]. This shows that we can sit down at other tables too and talk with the U.S. about other matters. The important thing is that we don't set any preconditions. And this comes back to the first point I made, I truly believe that the West must change its view of Iran. Many Western officials still...