Word: sterne
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With hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees winning the right to a trial and many Americans being accused of terrorism, there will be a high demand for defense lawyers. But the government has sent a stern message to those lawyers willing to take up the challenge: defend an alleged terrorist, and you may find yourself accused of aiding terrorism, disbarred, and facing up to 30 years in prison...
After Robert shares some very stern words with him, Uncle Nino decides that he should leave, and he discloses the true reason behind his trip. Now by this point you’ll probably have stopped caring, but Uncle Nino’s disclosure does start to introduce some much needed realism to the maddeningly saccharine world of the movie. Unfortunately, the film doesn’t take this further and instead opts for the route of quaint, sitcom resolution...
...spent much of the war beating the drum for the Chinese who had not made it to the Golden Mountain: America. At war's end she was 40 - not as old as the Great Wall, but getting on. Age had thickened her features, and years of playing either stern villains or stalwart heroines had stripped animation from her face. Now it was an impassive mask, as if she were preparing for a Peking Opera version of a Samuel Beckett play...
...higher is as old as the Great Pyramid (482 ft.). Or the Washington Monument (555 ft.). Or the Eiffel Tower (984 ft.). Is Osama bin Laden any match for our deepest impulses? "The skyscraper seems to have even more power now as a symbol of modernization," says Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the school of architecture at Yale University. And from the point of view of environmentalists and regional planners, tall buildings are the best alternative to suburban sprawl and the best means of getting more people and businesses into a smaller footprint on the ground, putting less pressure...
...What Stern means is that it's not just the silhouettes or the altitude that's changing. After Sept. 11, security and safety became much larger issues in the thinking of architects. More lives might have been saved at the Twin Towers if the plaster-wallboard interiors of the exit stairwells had not collapsed, blocking some exit routes. The Trade Center depended on a complicated structural system of interior and exterior steel columns. Many new towers favor superstrong concrete cores that not only brace more firmly against wind--and at 2,000-plus feet, you don't want to sway...