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...room has spartan furnishings: a round table, a few chairs, a mostly-cleared desk--all still arranged just as they were last spring. There are still eclectic paintings decorating the bland earthy interior walls of the spacious office...
During the protest, the group became involvedin several skirmishes and disputes with policeofficers who were located outside of the CharlesHotel. The entire rally was eventually moved bypolice officers from an interior courtyard of thehotel to an exterior courtyard near the street...
Ever since President Richard Nixon fired him as Interior Secretary in 1970, Walter Hickel has coveted the Alaska governorship he gave up to go to Washington. He has tried everything short of a coup d'etat to reclaim it -- Republican primaries, write-in campaigns, even lawsuits. Last week, at 71, Hickel found yet another way to pursue his goal: he became the candidate of the Alaskan Independence Party, a fringe group that wants the state to secede from the U.S. Hickel named as his running mate state senator Jack Coghill, 65, who defected from the No. 2 spot...
Pelli, however, did not make the standard postmodern mistake of replicating an old form at inappropriately huge size. The interior spaces are modest (no more than about 14,000 sq. ft. per floor), and an intricately detailed exterior suggests a bygone age, not any particular building or style. Four metal grids, each bolted at an upswept angle to the 60th floor, provide a classically inspired, yet unequivocally modern top. "We picked up threads of the past," says Pelli, "with a contemporary technology and contemporary sensibility...
...reality in this nation (which is low on money) and at this time (when the people in a single congressional district number more than the 413,000 in the Buffalo Commons area) are dramatically different things. The commons idea is a stranger in the departments of Agriculture and the Interior. If George Bush had heard of the concept, he would have posed with a buffalo. He hasn...