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Harvard must take measures to ensure that a tragedy like the destruction of the Great Hall does not happen again. Technically, other great interior spaces at Harvard--including the newly restored Memorial Hall--are not protected for future ages either. They too could someday fall victim to the programmatic needs of the moment or the whims of humanities professors...
...prevent this, I suggest creating a list of interior spaces to be preserved for posterity. The list need not be a long one--perhaps one or two dozen rooms. Moreover, the list's provisions should not rule out alterations or even interventions within these rooms, only that their overall character and proportions be preserved. Candidates for this list might include Memorial Hall, the main reading room in Widener, the dining halls of Dunster and Eliot Houses, the common room of Straus Hall and the main staircase and lobby of Sever. I recommend the formation of a panel to compile this...
...first day of the auction, Manhattan interior designer Juan Molyneux bought Jackie's engraved sterling-silver Tiffany tape measure for $48,875. Sotheby's ruled it would be worth $500 to $700. "When I bought the tape measure," says Molyneux, "the first thing I measured was my sanity...
...longer Ulyanovsk's party headquarters. Instead the Communist Party of the Russian Federation makes its regional base in a single-story wooden house next door to an animal hospital on a rutted, dead-end lane. The Second Secretary here is Zhavdets Ilyasov, 49, a retired colonel of Interior Ministry troops. The peeling wallpaper and crumbling ceiling in his office do not discourage him. He takes pride in the obvious differences between his austere communist organization and the fat cats of the old Soviet nomenklatura, who in the new Russia have profited from their high positions. "It is a myth...
Included in the visual aids that the University brought to the court were photos of both the interior and exterior of the Union taken the morning after the restraining order was issued...