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...naming Harvard-educated Ongpin her Finance Minister, the President made an especially wise choice. Ongpin promises to be a strong voice in the Cabinet. Even in his first days in office, he raised hackles among some UNIDO members by insisting that Jose Fernandez, 66, remain as president of the Philippine Central Bank. Ongpin's desire to keep Fernandez, a capable and widely respected financial expert, was eminently practical: he was a major architect of the IMF bailout scheme that saved the Philippines three years ago and will be a key player in ongoing consultations on the foreign debt...
...that was last year. Apparently the time has now come to rethink the last two decades of revisionism, to rehabilitate Mies posthumously. The definitive biography has just appeared, a wise, readable book by Franz Schulze titled simply Mies van der Rohe (University of Chicago; $39.95). Barcelona has nearly finished reconstructing his perfect building, the cool, absolutely confident German Pavilion built for the 1929 International Exposition. And now at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, always Mies' most important institutional propagandist, Architecture and Design Director Arthur Drexler has assembled the ultimate Mies exhibit: doodles, sketches, renderings, building models, photographs, furniture...
...film's denoument concerns some rather well-paid if shady messengering for a sleazy drug dealer named Gypsy (Rudy Ramos). Too cowardly or wise to deliver his product himself, he recruits money-hungry young innocents from Quicksilver to do his dirty work for him. One delivery boy, Apache (David Harris), has already fallen prey to Gypsy's ugly side: having dared to take a cut of his action, Gypsy strikes back, hunting Apache down in his car in an inferior version of the chase scene from The French Connection...
...ever doubting students needed proof that education, especially philosophy pays, even in a technological era, it can be found in the Nadav Safran case. Professor Sissela Bok had hardly left the Yard when her wise words on ethics in general and secrecy in particular were forgotten. I hear that she has been invited to return to give Moral Reasoning 24. I do not know it this is in consequence of the Satran case; whether or not it is, it should be open not only to undergraduates, but to deans and faculty, who seem also to be in need of core...
...wise move by Edgar, much of Jane and Guilford's love story is left unscripted, director Nunn relying instead on long, music-filled shots of the two kissing by a bubbling brook, riding over pastoral fields and playfully tickling each other in the hayloft. Reminiscent of a more modern Love Story whose protagonists played touch football in a snowy Harvard Stadium, these sequences are much more effective than the written word in capturing the quick, physical passion of adolescent love...