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...competition--buildings that swoop and stride--tell you again what Frank Gehry first made plain with his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. In architecture, the old world is dead. And with the exception of Gehry, there's no more powerful emblem of that change than Libeskind, 57, who was thrust into fame three years ago with his first building. In the late 1980s, when he won a competition to design the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Libeskind's name was known only to people who followed architectural theory. Though he was a respected teacher and thinker, he had never built anything...
...Renata Plachetkova was rushed into the delivery room for the birth of her second child, a nurse thrust a paper in her face, saying, "You must sign. We will tie off your tubes. You won't have more children." Given no time to consider alternatives, and little explanation of the procedure, Plachetkova consented. "I had no choice," she says. "I had to sign." A 27-year-old mother of two from Svedlar in eastern Slovakia, Plachetkova is one of some 110 Roma women who allege that they were forcibly sterilized in Slovakia's public hospitals since the 1989 fall...
Lawrence also described Mankiw as a conservative, and said he is likely to continue the basic thrust of Bush’s economic program...
...Still, the overall thrust appears to be improving on the 1994 deal struck by the Clinton Administration, which is precisely what Powell had advocated. And the fact that the Administration now finds itself having to convince Americans of the need to go to war over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, while engaging in negotiations over North Korea's goes to the heart of why State Department officials dealing with Asia had been so alarmed by the president's "Axis of Evil" speech. There are plenty of good reasons for treating Iraq and North Korea as unique and entirely separate...
Director David L. Skeist ’02-’03 says the “phenomenal” set design by Joy B. Fairfield ’03 is crucial to the play. Fairfield created a thrust stage—an unconventional design that places the audience on three sides of the playing space...