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...interview Friday, Professor in Practice of Urban Design Alex Krieger, whose firm is involved in the campus expansion project, said of the Allston announcement: “This has been scheduled for this week for quite awhile...
...interview Friday, Professor in Practice of Urban Design Alex Krieger whose company, Chan Krieger & Associates, is in charge of designing open spaces in the Allston campus, said the decision is the first concrete step taken since planners released a report last May outlining possible sites for several Harvard buildings in Allston...
...News senior political editor Dotty Lynch, who will be conducting a study group on the 2006 midterm elections, and former Cleveland mayor Jane L. Campbell, who will lead a group called “Voices and Choices,” which will examine race, gender, and economic stress in urban government. From abroad, the current Iraqi minister of municipalities and public works, Nesreen Barwari—who arrived in the U.S. yesterday—will lead a study group on Iraq’s current state of affairs, security issues, and social, political, and economic challenges. And Peru?...
...What's made this awkward reporting not merely annoying but socially and politically divisive is that it insults the intelligence of some people who already feel insulted in other ways by the very same class of urban journalists. Outside of D.C., L.A. and NYC, the only time folks get to meet a correspondent from a major television network or a writer from a leading newspaper is when a storm has just destroyed their neighborhood. And when the big shots do vist the outland, they always dress wrong, covered in either condescending denim or some haughty blend of wool and silk...
Enter the world of Bratz dolls, and you can see that their bedrooms are not pink with daisy pillows on the beds, though girls can get a disco ball and a Plugged In Lip CD Boombox. Introduced in the summer of 2001, the dolls are cool, urban and multicultural, with names like Roxxi and Nazalia and Jade and Fianna. They have big heads and big hair, and faces that make you wonder if Angelina Jolie licensed her lips. The designers have even solved the problem of those infuriating little Barbie shoes. The Bratz feet are huge, and when you remove...