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...Rigorous, ascetic, distilled - these are words repeatedly applied to Zumthor's work, and no wonder. You sense that he might prefer his buildings to be judged by the same standards by which we "judge" mountains and trees - for their fundamental power and durability, for the ways they seem to spring from the earth. In his pronouncements on architecture there's that note of aesthetic militancy you also heard in Le Corbusier. "In a society that celebrates the inessential,"Zumthor once wrote, "architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language...
...takes an estimated 32.7 hours to complete a standard 1040 income tax form, according to the Internal Revenue Service, so it's no wonder that nearly two-thirds of Americans get professional help. The U.S. income tax code, replete with embellishments like the earned-income tax credit and the mortgage-interest deduction, is not even a century old; the 16th Amendment created the modern federal income-tax structure in 1913. But for years personal-income-tax business for accountants remained a trickle--in 1918, only 5% of Americans earned enough to file returns. After the IRS cracked down...
...wonder no one else had added anything. Three more of Harvard's finest under-used study spaces are listed after the jump...
...quietest man I have come across. He was so soft-spoken that you could not hear him under his breath. It made you wonder, even if momentarily, if he really led the Tamil Tigers." - Sadanand Menon, Indian journalist (New York Times, March...
...Most importantly, when political science is more scientific, it is less political. The charts and graphs describe the status quo; they don’t define our ideals. If we focus too much on what the people want from their government, we may forget to wonder what they should want. For centuries, people have debated the proper role of government, and the significance of these questions attracts students to the field. Only humans can provide answers to these problems; science just measures the results...