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...This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
Perhaps no place better symbolizes the stranger-than-fiction quality of the U.S. project in Iraq than the Republican Palace. The sprawling sandstone complex on the Tigris River was a monument to Saddam Hussein's regime. Then in 2003 it became the center of American power there--first of direct military rule, and following that, as headquarters of the U.S. embassy. Though U.S. officials removed some of the more egregious reminders of Saddam--like massive stone carvings of the dictator's head--the palace's marble floors and soaring ballrooms still make an incongruously imperial backdrop for the civilians...
...school has the best campus legend featured on its Wikipedia page. My one and only source for term papers mentions Princeton’s “Phantom of Fine Hall…an obscure, shadowy figure that would infest Fine Hall, home to the Mathematics Department, and write complex equations on blackboards.”Even if the phantom had turned out to be John Forbes Nash, inventor of the Nash equilibrium, I prefer complex math problems to mysteriously appear thanks to tough yet sensitive MIT janitors from Southie, thank you very much. Let’s see what...
...problems responsive to sharp correctives - after which unemployment rates eased in step with other recovery indicators. More recent recoveries from economic downturns, however, have tended to go forward without major gains in employment, a reflection of the fact that the underlying economic problems of modern recessions have been more complex and therefore more difficult to solve. Levy thinks the same dynamics are in play now as the economy struggles to regain its footing after being sunk by complicated issues such as capital flows and deflation of assets and debt - all of which choke off cash flows among big employers...
...design acceptable plans on Harvard, which they said has still not provided details about the specific components of its Allston plan. In particular, residents complained about what task force chair Ray Mellone called “nebulous” plans for the Holton Street Corridor and a proposed housing complex for Harvard affiliates in the South District. Some residents also questioned how Harvard’s master planning would fit in with the community-wide planning efforts lead by the city. “This seemed to me like it was a quick study of how to prepare for changes...