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...what we see is the slowly changing profile of the highest court taste. And the third is that the museum's 650-page tome of a catalog, prepared under the supervision of Wen C. Fong, the Met's curator of Chinese art, is probably the best introduction to its subject in print...
...Judas didn't do it. Or at least the charges wouldn't stick," and "Well, the Jesus Seminar is at it again," you poke fun at the event and the scholars exploring the origins of Christianity. Jesus Seminar critics, on the other hand, are quoted with more respect. This subject deserved a more serious treatment. What were you afraid of? Angering the Christian political establishment, scaring the faithful--or the truth? MARY FONTAINE HOUSE Cairo Via E-mail...
What I mean is that a taller building was built in another city. That city is Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, not the first place that comes to mind when the conversation turns to the subject of imposing skylines. Chicago fought tooth and nail to avoid being dropped to the second slot. Apparently, its boosters do not look forward to driving an out-of-town visitor past the Sears Tower and saying, "To find a building taller than that, my friend, you'd have to go to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
Chicago's case was heard by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which really does exist and is considered the final arbiter on the subject of which building is the tallest. Chicago argued that a tall building ought to be measured to its highest occupied floor rather than to its structural top. That would make the Sears Towers taller than the Kuala Lumpur building, which gets its final 242 ft. of height from some decorative spires that I believe are referred to in the local dialect as tchotchkes...
...through contortions to prevent doubles and triples, and the Memorial Day/religious conflict problems would be solved. Plus, we'd have that luscious extra day of intersession. And finally, we would have taken a symbolic step towards admitting that reading period is far too long--and far too subject to professors' wills--to begin with...