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...strong, antiseptic, anesthetic odor of postmodernism clings to Apex Hides the Hurt, a sense that you're watching the shadow play of symbols of things and not the things themselves. There are things around that hurt--vacant late-capitalist follies, personal disillusionment, buried historical crimes. But Whitehead is unable or unwilling to reveal them...
...Many frequented Phatt Boys throughout first semester, and the cavernous eatery earned a rep for fun (read: lax carding). Yet today, nearly all remnants of Phatt Boys’s existence have disappeared. The reasons for its shutdown are unclear. An employee at Dado Tea, which abuts the now-vacant lot, claims the place closed due to “bad location of the restaurant, since it is so far back,” nestled awkwardly up a ramp between an artsy tea shop and a staid office complex. In contrast, says the Dado barista...
...presidential candidates on the council. Magnus Grimeland ’07 was expelled from the council during reading period because of unexcused absences. Tom D. Hadfield ’08, Grimeland’s running mate, was never on the council, although he is currently running to fill a vacant seat in Eliot House. Although they were considered to be the “insider” ticket, Voith and Gadgil came in a disappointing third in December’s election after a campaign that was marked by several flashes of controversy. In the second week of the election...
...most recent indicator of the breadth of the building inefficiency scourge comes from a 2003 U.S. Government report that identified 927 vacant and underused federal properties controlled by just three agencies: the General Services Administration, Veterans Affairs, and the U.S. Postal Service. Under Coburn?s questioning, Get Moy, the Director of Installation Requirements and Management at the Department of Defense, conceded that he could not offer a firm number for how much the Pentagon spends to maintain underutilized buildings, though he could offer that between 1998 and 2004, the department met its own target of shedding 86,000 sq. feet...
...Several agencies represented at the hearing, however, did report progress on getting a handle on their inventory. William Matthews, an assistant commissioner at the General Services Administration, said that it now maintains 376 vacant and underused assets, including office buildings, courthouses, laboratories and warehouses, out of a total of nearly 9,000 properties. The VA reported that 5% of its nearly 150 million square feet is vacant, including the main VA hospital in Milwaukee. In a federal budget that President Bush just proposed at $2.77 trillion, several billion dollars on unused office space may seem insignifcant. But Democratic Senator Barack...