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...city is building a $275 million Center for the Performing Arts downtown that will feature a theater designed by Ur-Euro architect Rem Koolhaas; when Dallas broke ground on a bridge across the Trinity River in 2005, it was working not from, say, a practical Army Corps plan but from a soaring design by the Spaniard Santiago Calatrava. It would be silly to suggest these projects were built with gays in mind--the Koolhaas theater is largely funded by Republicans Charles and Dee Wyly--but the architectural ornamentation does help explain why Dallas is more appealing to gays than...
When Blase E. Ur ’07 logs into Amazon.com, the Web site’s recommendation feature normally offers him a variety of computer programming books and DVDs about snakes. Why? The former Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) President and life-long techie once synthesized footage from “The Miracle of Life” and snake films for a Harvard production—a female character was giving birth to a reptile, and Ur wanted to shoot for verisimilitude. During his time at Harvard, Ur has also built a giant pirate ship, an enchanted forest that...
Click on a name to view a profile of that OFA medal winner! Mark P. Musico '07 Nicole A. Salazar '06-07 Joshua M. Brener '07 Michael B. Hoagland '07 Stefan P. Jackiw '07 Blase E. Ur '07 Larissa Koch...
Friday was a lovely day in Baghdad: blue skies, 75 degrees, light breeze. The streets were empty because it was the first day of the weekend here, when many Iraqis visit mosques to hear sermons. The evening news reports were refreshingly short. No one was killed in Ur city in the northern section of the capital when a homemade bomb exploded as worshipers were leaving Friday prayers. Two were injured in al-Dora, a neighborhood on a bend in the Tigris, when a taxicab exploded. The residents of al-Amel hid in their houses during a firefight between an armed...
...that they are better managed without the world-famous management consultant and author of In Search of Excellence and Re-imagine! than with him: higher revenues, doubled profitability, loyalty from old clients and a roster of new ones like Starbucks, DHL and GE. "Fortune called Tom Peters the Ur-guru of management," says Bluepoint partner David Parks, "but apparently not when it comes to running his own company...