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...project's success is a testament to the fact that green architecture has begun to come of age, after a false and unaesthetic start in the early 1970s. Architects, builders, construction managers and corporate planners are beginning to realize that environmentally sound buildings are not only politically correct, they are cheaper to operate and offer a healthier environment for workers. These pragmatic advantages are being demonstrated by such structures as the Natural Resources Defense Council headquarters in New York City, the Environmental Defense Fund building in Washington, the Internationale Nederlanden Group Bank in Amsterdam and a regional government center...
...testament to the consistently powerful performances that our alliances change throughout the play; that we are torn in our adjudication of right and wrong: urgency to stop thinking and act in the face of impending danger is so palpable. Oliver is certainly the most masterful of the three, his sophistication as an actor well-demonstrated by the transformation of ideology and emotion that "Mr. M" undergoes, Swaby's Thami is magnetic in his development from polite and amiable debate to clenched-fisted crescendoes, as he turns on "Mr. M": "Yours were the lessons in whispering, there...
...only that, but in addition to being committed to academics, we must also be committed to a struggle against racism outside of the classroom--a struggle which, combined with our fight against curricular racism, makes achieving what we do a testament to our qualifications and abilities not only to "keep up" with, but surpass Harvard's standards...
...change the political system from within society, he effectively gave up his citizenship in a protest against that system. Ironically, the piece he wrote during his subsequent term in jail, "Civil Disobedience," quotes the well known "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" passage of the New Testament. What is most peculiar here is that the principals of the HRAC have not given up their "citizenship" in the HRRC, though they refuse to render unto Boyle that which is Boyle...
...uplifting anger, the emphasis on Black woman-mother, the perseverance of love; these concerns unify Undersong so that it can be read straight through as one whole, as a testament to a life's work and the wisdom and experience necessary to be able to alter that work slightly. As Lorde writes in her poem "Conclusion", "I believe in love as I believe in our children/ but I was born Black and without illusion/ and my vision/ which differs from yours/ is clear/ although sometimes restricted...