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...Perot petition coalition fuses spare-no-expense business sophistication with a giddy volunteer enthusiasm. Despite Perot's pretense of an above-the- fray aloofness from the campaign, the nerve center is on the 11th floor of the same posh north Dallas office tower where his business headquarters is located. Here half a dozen Perot Group employees huddle behind the closed brown door of a war room. A wall map of Texas symbolizes the state's role as the first major petition hurdle; by May 11, Perot needs the signatures of 54,000 voters who did not participate in this year...
Spring is kind to the place Mother Harvard calls home. Coaches throw baseballs to little boys on Cambridge Common. The river the shines proudly as it passes the boathouse. An imposing bell tower smiles beneficently on a green Lowell House Courtyard--and its students of privilege...
...only the students who have changing needs. So do the various communities that colleges and universities are trying to serve. Inside what was once the ivory tower, there is a growing interest in new kinds of alliances with business. In St. Louis, Washington University and Monsanto Co. have linked up in biomedical research projects involving proteins and peptides, as part of a search for more sophisticated drugs. On the campus of the University of California, Irvine, Hitachi has built a high-tech research lab, which it shares with U.C.'s top-flight biochemistry department. Critics worry about the ethics...
...builders of the legendary Tower of Babel had hired a work crew from Utah, the massive structure might actually have been completed instead of collapsing in the confusion of the workers' diverse languages. The linguistically savvy Utahans could have worked like bees in a hive. Or at least that is the boast among modern-day locals, who are using their language skills to build the economy of their home state...
...Cubism, rather as the Dutch Constructivist Gerrit Rietveld in the 1920s abstracted the shape of a chair into a penitential parody of itself. Not only Cubism gets its share of parody, but other styles as well -- Frank Stella's paintings or, in a tiny architectural piece with a tower and a tilted ramp called De Chirico's Bathhouse, 1980, the theatrical piazzas of Italian "metaphysical painting...