Word: sydney
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...same kind of thinking occurs in Foster's unfinished project for the British Museum. When its library moved to massive new premises a mile away, it left behind one of the great English spaces: the 1857 Round Reading Room designed by Sydney Smirke, with its shallow dome, surrounded by a two-acre internal court. To demolish this masterpiece would have been unthinkable. It had to be preserved, and Foster's scheme for so doing entailed sweeping away the clutter of now obsolete bookstack buildings from around it and covering the court with a light glass-and-steel roof, thus creating...
...changed in the past decade? Log on to the Internet, launch a search engine and type in the word enquire (British spelling, please). You'll get about 30,000 hits. It turns out you can "enquire" about nearly anything online these days, from used Harley Davidsons for sale in Sydney, Australia ("Enquire about touring bikes. Click here!"), to computer-training-by-e-mail courses in India ("Where excellence is not an act but a habit"). Click once to go to a site in Nairobi and enquire about booking shuttle reservations there. Click again, and zip off to Singapore...
This whole exercise was so flawed and dishonest that President Clinton carries no burden of shame at all. Nobody cares. The Republicans made first-prize idiots of themselves, and the media came in a close second. SYDNEY KAYE Cape Town...
Children who have read Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family will find it easy to picture immigrant life by imagining Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie calling on friends in what is now the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, a restored tenement building on Orchard Street...
...Sydney, she assumed the responsibilities of an adult. Two weeks before her parents left, she paid the bills, cleaned the apartment and bought groceries. She also learned how to drive. "At first I was really worried about living up to their trust in us. Perhaps it's a first-child syndrome to always do the right thing in their eyes," she says. "My parents actually made a big sacrifice and they must have gone through a lot of stress...