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...would be premature to turn pessimistic about the promise of Allston, and despite our myriad concerns, the future across the river is bright. More living space to alleviate overcrowding in the existing Houses, a student center, new recreational athletic facilities, and the promise of a large scale urban revitalization to boot—tomorrow’s College will potentially alleviate, in some dramatic ways, the most pressing problems of today’s. To be sure, the hardest work remains ahead; realizing those goals given the various competing interests at stake—not to mention the physical restraints...
Last week’s armed robbery in front of Pennypacker Hall, in which a freshman was robbed at gunpoint, is a disturbing reminder that crime is intrinsic to an urban college campus. More importantly, the incident offers two useful lessons worth reiterating to both students and campus security groups. To students, being a hero isn’t worth the risk. And to campus security groups, don’t forget about the Union dorms...
...Taniguchi has transformed the museum from what used to feel almost like a mall into a rare temple of calm and a reinvigorated setting for viewing great art. With its crisp lines, smooth materials and minimalist d?cor, the museum offers an instant shelter, an oasis in a gritty, insomniac urban center...
Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile ($39.99) is not the first computer game to make urban planning fun--SimCity did that 15 years ago. But it is the first such game to make you care more about individuals than buildings. You start as the Pharaoh of a band of farmers in ancient Egypt, and your job is to create a bustling economy and build a pyramid. The graphics are so detailed, you can zoom right up to your citizens' faces. Is the Menun'sheni family working? Will little Aswad become a priest? Only you can improve their lot. Ancient Egypt...
...Fallujah. As the U.S. fights there, violence is rippling across the center and north of Iraq, engulfing the increasingly restive city of Mosul, the third largest in the country. The violence has raised the prospect that the siege of Fallujah could be a prelude to a series of nasty urban street fights--precisely the sort of war the U.S. military had desperately hoped to avoid when the invasion started in the spring...