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Located on Cambridge Street adjacent to Memorial Hall, the Gund Hall of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is perhaps one of the ugliest and most poorly executed buildings on campus. The structure’s stepped profile, visually offensive from the outside, is also not conducive to the work students do there. On each step, rows of cubicles house scores of budding architects, but at the very bottom it is chilling cold at night, and at the very top, uncomfortably warm at midday. Despite the GSD’s structural failings, however, the building still periodically welcomes compelling?...
...Soviet government. It indicated that America would no longer make excuses for brutally despotic regimes that threatened our national security. As Noonan writes, “dictatorships cannot continue forever in an atmosphere of truth…[Reagan] refused to lie, and with his words the fall of the ugliest dictatorship in human history began...
DIED. STANLEY MARCUS, 96, pioneering high-end retailer who transformed a family-run women's-apparel store into the opulent Dallas-based emporium Neiman Marcus; in Dallas. Voted the ugliest boy in his high school class, Marcus went on to receive an M.B.A. from Harvard and made his mark in retailing with the introduction of personalized gift wrapping, in-store fashion shows and his legendary line of extravagant his-and-her gifts, which included a pair of Beechcraft airplanes...
...BLACK HAWK DOWN This is big-time, big-budget moviemaking at its best. A hugely complex re-creation of a 1993 special forces fire fight in Somalia, it is masterfully orchestrated by director Ridley Scott. Brutal, bloody, breathless in pace, it shows us modern warfare's newest, ugliest face and finally becomes, like all great war movies, an antiwar movie--at least in the beholder's savaged...
...shooting those from Arab nations who had gone to help the Taliban. Though Rumsfeld clearly said he opposed such executions, it seemed to many Arab journalists that he was implicitly condoning them. Charged Abdelbari Atwan in the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi: "This is racist hatred in its ugliest form...