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Until now, that is. This Thursday, the 128th anniversary of the architect's birth, Republican Governor Tommy Thompson will preside at the official groundbreaking ceremony for what is probably the most important Wright-designed project never executed in his lifetime. Monona Terrace is a five-level, semicircular, 1.8 hectare convention center now under construction at the edge of Lake Monona in Madison. Wright spent his youth in the state capital, which is about 65 km east of Taliesin (Welsh for "shining brow"), his home and architecture school at Spring Green. Those historic connections with Madison must have given Wright...
...Boston College baseball team spoiled Harvard's 128th opening day, walking away from Soldiers Field with two victories yesterday...
...Crimson won't have to wait much longer. On Friday it opens its 128th season in Clearwater, Fla. against national powerhouse Michigan State...
...though it's still early in the season, the Harvard varsity heavyweights are a good bet to be winners quite frequently in this, their 128th season of competition...
...shadows cast by other menacing forces also lengthened in 1986. The disease known as AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) claimed its 16,128th American life and left millions more rethinking their private lives. The epidemic of drugs became more sobering than ever, as the young turned to an addictive and unusually noxious boiled-down form of cocaine known as crack. One atomic nightmare came true and others were awakened when a Soviet atomic power reactor at Chernobyl, 80 miles north of Kiev, exploded and then kept burning for several days, a man-made disaster that could cause as many...