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...disadvantage, the piecemeal development of the 68-acre district was a blessing in disguise. Instead of producing an instant suite of palazzi frozen in their moment, which is a fair description of New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Dallas put together a diverse sampling of work by leading architects from across three decades. And with the Wyly and Winspear, very diverse. It would be hard to imagine two architects more unlike each other than Foster, the meticulous inheritor of the principles of High Modernism, and Koolhaas, who has spent a lifetime sorting through those principles...
...goes without saying that they've never been known as fans of each other's work. During the more than five years it took to bring the Wyly and Winspear from the design phase to completion, representatives of the two firms rarely showed up in Dallas at the same time, preferring arm's-length communication by e-mail and conference calls. Stories about the exasperation of the Dallas powers-that-be started turning up in the local press. As a further twist, three years ago the Wyly's co-designer, Prince-Ramus, who headed the New York branch of Koolhaas...
...time and talent for at least four TV seasons - 14 to 18 years old seems to be the sweet spot. Still, the line of hopefuls shows no sign of dwindling. "Disney's an amazing cross-promoter. You will become a teen star," says Levy. "Then you'll have to work twice as hard to prove you are more." (Read "The Jonas Brothers Movie Review: Kids vs. Critic...
About two-thirds of American workers now believe they'll have to delay their retirement by at least one year, with 27% expecting to work at least five years longer than planned because of the debilitating economy and stock-market losses, according to a new survey. (See "The Future of Work: The End of Cubicles...
However, he believes the survey's results reflect emotional responses rather than reality. "People are frozen with fear - this unbelievable emotional roller coaster has caused people to make decisions to continue to work even if they didn't need to," says Evans. "There's a belief that because the market has dropped and the economy appears to be terrible that they do not have enough to make ends meet ... But oftentimes, if they put pen to paper and examine the financial implications of the market pullback, they will find that they...