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Like a lot of architects, Piano grimaces when people ask him about his style. "I hate the idea," he says. "It's a dangerous thing, a rubber stamp you put on the world." What he believes in, he says, "is the value of transparency and light. This is not a style. This is just an attitude...
...sound admirably prudent. But Germany is in bad shape. In Halle, they're feeling the pinch, again - even if the situation is (remarkably) not quite as bad as it is in west German regions such as the environs of Stuttgart, where almost half a million people have been put on short-term work since last October as auto and machinery factories have slowed production. The east has been somewhat protected because its firms don't export as much as their west German opposite numbers. An unmistakable streak of eastern stoicism helps, too. "I notice that when...
Earlier this spring, a London fringe theater put on a sellout production of Saturday Night, about young Brooklynites gambling on the 1929 stock market, which Sondheim penned when he was 24 and saw performed on stage first in 1997. "I take it as an encouraging sign that the shows are worth looking at a second time," Sondheim says. "Most musicals, you look at them a second time, they're not as good as they were the first time." His own endure, he believes, because "I write with better librettists. They're better playwrights than the librettists of most musicals...
...like months of recession-filled articles and accounts of how the current global financial crisis is causing havoc for many [April 27]. After all, it cannot be easy leading the world's most powerful nation through such treacherous times. Let's hope Bo can help ease the stress and put some perspective on Obama's life. Shaun Michael Dunlop, Cape Town...
Washington can and should continue to augment the country's antiviral stockpile and publish revised pandemic plans like the 396-page doorstopper put out by the Department of Health and Human Services in 2005. Increasing our capacity to manufacture and distribute flu vaccines within our borders is also a must. But truly preparing the country for a pandemic means tackling the basic flaws at the heart of the health-care system--starting with the some 50 million Americans who lack any health insurance. They're more likely to flood hospitals for care during a pandemic, further taxing what will...