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...plenty of high points, including the Monty Pythonesque drawings by Archigram, a group of British design theorists from the '60s and '70s whose fantasies on paper, such as The Walking City, have long since worked their way into the collective psyche of architecture students. An actual building with a plain debt to The Walking City was even completed last year in Toronto: Will Alsop's Ontario College of Art and Design is a massive tabletop of classrooms and offices, all elevated on angled steel columns to look like a structure heading out for a stroll...
...quite different. It is widely admitted both inside and outside the Party that China's astonishing economic growth in the past 15 years has been accompanied by growing social strains, such as a widening gap between rich and poor and an increase in corruption. But as was made plain in the communiqu? after a plenary meeting of the Party's Central Committee last fall?the meeting at which Hu pushed Jiang into full retirement?Hu sees the answer to such problems in a strengthened Party whose cadres control the workings of government. "Hu offers a Leninist solution," says a Western...
...reproach. But that's the trick. To judge this Administration, you must look deeper into the policies being enacted and their impact on the various segments of our society. You can't judge a book by its cover. Olivia Koppell New York City Pakistan Responds Your report "Hiding In Plain Sight" [Nov. 29] claimed Pakistani authorities were ignoring Taliban fugitives who have taken refuge in our southern city of Quetta. No Taliban member is welcome in Pakistan. Our country is a key, vital partner of the U.S. in the war on terrorism. President Pervez Musharraf has ordered more than...
Meghan A. Day ‘05 had applied a generous dollop of cream cheese to a plain East End bagel yesterday morning, when she weighed in on the quality of the new brand...
...Pakistan Responds Your report "Hiding in Plain Sight" [Nov. 29] claimed Pakistani authorities were ignoring Taliban fugitives who have taken refuge in our southern city of Quetta. No Taliban member is welcome in Pakistan. Our country is a key, vital partner of the U.S. in the war on terrorism. President Pervez Musharraf has ordered more than 70,000 troops to police Pakistan's southwestern border with Afghanistan. The President has repeatedly made it clear that he will spare no effort to rid Pakistan of all inimical foreign elements. Talat Waseem Press Counselor Embassy of Pakistan Washington...