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Jewish groups, who still remember John Paul II's historic efforts to open dialogue across religious boundaries, were furious at the Vatican announcement. Benedict's planned visit next month to Rome's central synagogue is officially still on, but Italy's Jewish leaders are upset by the news. It follows a string of perceived slights and slip-ups by Benedict, including his bringing back into the fold followers of the movement founded by arch-traditionalist French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. A speech the Pope gave in May at Jerusalem's Holocaust memorial also left many Jews disappointed at its vagueness about...
...Transparency has been a buzzword among architects for some time now. One thing it refers to is the attempt to open a building to its surroundings. So the leaping gash that cuts through the Cooper Union façade - part dancer, part dueling scar, part Chinese character that never was - could be called a gesture towards transparency. It corresponds to the public areas of the building and discloses them to the outside. It could also be called a gesture of pure architectural theater. Especially at night, when the building is lit from within, it's a completely smashing addition...
...Inside, Mayne has provided another bravura gesture, a stairway framed in places by a fluid, torquing gridwork of white-painted steel that whirlpools upward through the building's multistory atrium. Appearing sometimes like a sort of trellis, sometimes as an open-grid wall, it has so much visual energy the stairs seem in some places to be climbing themselves...
...Adds Bakash, "Later in life he became a defender of individual rights which he [had] ignored in the early years of the revolution," championing everything from an open press to freer speech...
...possibly closed if it's based in China. Web users move on to new haunts or find new routes to old ones. But by plugging enough holes and muffling enough dissenting voices, China's Communist Party curbs online opposition to its rule while still allowing the Internet to be open enough to not dangerously impede commerce...