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...even generously funds the arts. And once I focused more on people than on architecture, I saw that economic poverty had not taken a toll on the wealth of Cuban culture. One Sunday, I watched a colorful parade march alongside the gutted buildings of the city’s main street. Dancers in elaborate costumes twirled alongside musicians playing every sort of instrument to the delight of hundreds of spectators. It was as though this parade erupted from the street. People in Cuba are poor, but for the most part, they are equally poor. Without class divisions, my friends told...
...before being allowed into the auditions that are actually filmed. “Simon and Paula and Randy don’t actually turn up for the first week,” Flynn said. Flynn sang Aretha Franklin’s “Think” for her main song and succeeded in the first round, but the next panel of judges were not so receptive to her talent and so she went home without her 15 minutes of fame on film. “It was a fun experience, but I’m glad I don?...
...permission of House masters in a space that “ensures a large degree of privacy.” This requires that students have locks on their bedrooms and private bathrooms, and such rooms can be hard to come by in certain houses.The bathroom issue was the main obstacle for the Mather roommates. Their bathroom required a $220 lock, which was quite pricey for a precaution the students considered heteronormative. Their House masters found a cheaper lock for $75. “We all trust Benet. He’s not a rapist or anything. We don?...
...assistant commissioner at the General Services Administration, said that it now maintains 376 vacant and underused assets, including office buildings, courthouses, laboratories and warehouses, out of a total of nearly 9,000 properties. The VA reported that 5% of its nearly 150 million square feet is vacant, including the main VA hospital in Milwaukee. In a federal budget that President Bush just proposed at $2.77 trillion, several billion dollars on unused office space may seem insignifcant. But Democratic Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, who joined Coburn at the hearing, stressed that every penny counts. "Regardless of what sides...
...main post office, the largest postal facility in the world when it was completed in 1934 but now just a hulking, dilapidated symbol of federal mismanagement. Since it closed in 1996 as the sparkling- and notably smaller-new state-of-the art facility opened across the street (after its own $133 million in cost overruns), virtually nothing has happened with the vacant building, except that taxpayers keep shelling out $2 million each year in "holding costs" to pay for security guards and bare-bones electrical and heating costs. Assorted stakeholders-federal and local government officials, potential private developers and landmark...