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...defines the far end of the grassy quadrangle that stretches from HMNH to the sidewalk. In the nebulous land beyond the Science Center, riddled with other modern concoctions whose entrances are even more convoluted than the Green Line, the Northwest Science Building provides order and clarity.Every aspect of the building??from the multi-storied walls of glass to the shiny silver handrails—has a certain sleekness; it’s an Apple product-cum-building. The building??s unscuffed, unmarred, and polished appearance puts the vogue of earthy-colored steel to shame. It?...
...THINGSThe Quincy Street expansion proposed by architect Renzo Piano, who is also currently renovating the Isabella Stuart Gardener museum in Boston, will be the first substantial renovation of the Fogg. Additions have been made to the Prescott Street side of the facility, but the original 1927 section of the building??which replaced the 1895 building that first housed the museum—has never been significantly altered. Piano’s plan will remove the Prescott Street additions to the museum, “primarily because,” Manoogian says, “those spaces were never...
...same room, highlighting their similarities and shared influences. The strength of the collection, however, lies not only in the individual works themselves, which include time-honored masterpieces and works completed as recently as this year, but in its innovative groupings. With so much art crammed into one building??hanging, propped up against the walls, in glass cases, and standing in the middle of the rooms—it is conceivable that the exhibit could very well have deteriorated into a crowded jumble of art and artifacts. However, the careful placement of the works allows viewers to easily comprehend...
...Under the New Paradigm, wiretapping Americans without a warrant and abusing detainees until they confessed to something became not only permissible but necessary. Indeed, ruthless, seemingly irrational enemies only responded to force, so force was what they deserved. Historical precedents, such as the successful “rapport-building?? interrogations of Nazi war criminals or other countries’ experiences countering terrorism, proved irrelevant in such a new world. Taken at face value, there is something appealing about the concept of wiping the slate clean and starting anew, eliminating the historical record much like the government of Oceania...
...empirical facts fail to corroborate this view of the post-9/11 world. Mayer writes that in the case of two of the administration’s highest-profile detainees, Abu Zubayda and Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, traditional FBI “rapport-building?? interrogations produced favorable results, while CIA coercion provided scant intelligence. In al-Libi’s case, the intelligence he did provide under duress proved tragically false. During the months leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Egyptian officials, backed by the CIA, pressed al-Libi to link Al Qaeda to Iraq?...