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...tension between art and practical use presented by the chairs offers one of the interesting contradictions of the exhibit. Each architect worked with the explicit goal of creating a useful thing—chairs were meant to be easily portable to move through the variety of spaces being created in their buildings. They were never created as sculpture or art of-and-for-itself. But the chairs, which never reached very large audiences, find themselves in a gallery after...
...After experiencing how we elect the mayor over the last several years, I just don’t have the confidence in our process,” Decker said, noting “the bad feelings and the tension that this mayor’s race provides among the colleagues...
...need more interschool tension in the Ivy League. It’s important for people at Columbia to know that they’re better than people at other colleges,” he said...
...Laden may be holed up somewhere in a sprawling, mountainous swath of territory that extends from Khost, in eastern Afghanistan, south to Angoorada, in the Waziristan region of Pakistan. According to diplomats in Kabul, the area's unique vegetation was seen in bin Laden's latest videotaped statement. The tension in the border region is already high. On Saturday, Pakistani soldiers shot up a bus that tried to force its way through a checkpoint in South Waziristan, killing 11 people...
TIME: This is good. You have tension...