Word: hards
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...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 to see which ones had to go. Foster's buildings tend toward the serene and Cartesian. Koolhaas...
...these pieces take time," says Christopher Anders, the ACLU's senior legislative counsel. "It's hard to see how the government can short-circuit the significant start-up time that's going to be needed. "After all this work," he said of the commissions, "we'll see if they end up getting used...
...offenses Congress set aside for the commissions, as it did in 2006. But such offenses have not been recognized as war crimes by the Geneva Convention, nor have they been brought before military tribunals before. Administration legal officials have expressed concern that civilian appeals courts would reverse hard-won convictions on grounds that material support offenses should not have been tried by the commissions...
...Vienna move may be read as Iran flexing its muscle with respect to a deal that the Obama Administration badly needs - international support for harsher sanctions remains limited as long as Iran is ready to offer some form of cooperation. But in doing so while isolating the most hard-line among the Western powers, Tehran may be offering concessions that it's willing to give, while enjoying a personal poke at Sarkozy...
...Iran, the hard truth is that ethnic Persians make up only 51% of the population. The rest of the country is a mishmash of ethnic minorities, various religions, Muslim sects and semi-nomadic tribes. None has been entirely happy living under the mullahs' Shi'ite theocracy, especially Iran's Sunni citizens, which make up 9% of the population and include most of the Baluch. Iran's minorities have been susceptible to outside influences, but rarely have they felt strong enough to take on Tehran - which fears that that could change with the chaos at its borders. If, for instance...