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...shiny and aloof was how they did performing-arts complexes back then, with lots of bright lights, white stone and dancing waters but not much connection to the neighborhood. In 1964 the Music Center of Los Angeles County was deposited into the nowheresville of downtown L.A., a part of the city where very few people actually lived. It wasn't just that the place didn't reach out to the neighborhood. There was no neighborhood to reach...
...Seven years later, Washington celebrated the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center, a white marble extravaganza designed by Edward Durrell Stone, the era's go-to guy for Establishment swank. Within a single vast building, it held three theaters and a grand foyer that's one of the biggest rooms in the world. But it was also cut off from the city behind a rat's nest of roads and highways...
...fountain plaza built over that tangle of roadways, two sizable low-rise buildings that would face the center from across the new plaza, and a long boulevard of reflecting pools. The idea was to make the place more like part of an ensemble of pavilions, less like the lonely white palazzo that it remains - and will remain for some time. Two years after the expansion plan was unveiled, it was postponed indefinitely when Congress cut its share of the funding...
...playing out in Rome, Hillary Clinton was visiting Tokyo on her first overseas tour as U.S. Secretary of State. Clinton announced that Aso on Feb. 24 will visit Washington to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama. That Aso was selected as the first foreign leader to visit Obama's White House offers a ray of hope that the world's two largest economies are cooperating to solve the economic crisis. But the honor was hardly an unvarnished vote of confidence. During her Japan stopover, Clinton took an unusual side trip by also meeting with Ozawa, the DPJ chief. Is Washington...
What's more, though they may not admit it, the more moderate Latin leftists who dominate the region's politics today - including Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whom Obama has invited to the White House in March - know that their own electoral paths were opened in no small part by Chávez's victory in 1998. So it should have come as no surprise that many Latin American Presidents took issue with Obama's suggestion, in a Univision interview last month, that the Venezuelan leader aids terrorists. After all, last summer...