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Gary R. Hilderbrand, an adjunct professor at the GSD who has worked with Van Valkenburgh for the past twenty years, said that Van Valkenburgh has “design leadership of a rare kind...
...rare show of bipartisanship, the need for fundamental reform has united disparate factions of academia. In a 2005 paper entitled “Nonpartisan Social Security Reform Plan,” a trio of economists—including a former Bush economic advisor and a senior official in the Obama administration (Kennedy School Professor Jeff Liebman)—propose a plan to ensure the solvency of Social Security by increasing the retirement age, increasing the payroll tax cap, and, most importantly, offering personal retirement accounts that would allow workers to contribute into what is essentially a government-sponsored Individual...
...root of this superficiality lies chiefly in the show’s actors, as their performances consistently fail to spark interest or emotional engagement. In scenes that are clearly aiming at tenderness—such as a rare moment of fond reminiscing shared by Mr. Zero and his wife the night before his execution—the actors dully recite trite exchanges which fail to evoke empathy, let alone hold attention...
Thanks for Klein's thoughtful and moving words about how West Bank Palestinians have been trying to improve their circumstances. Such honest commentary is strangely rare in the U.S. But it's a little patronizing to mention Palestinian good behavior as if Palestinians have been bad students for no reason whatsoever. If someone stole our homes and land, we might act up too. Naomi Shihab Nye, SAN ANTONIO...
...Thanks for Klein's thoughtful and moving words about how West Bank Palestinians have been trying to improve their circumstances. Such honest commentary is strangely rare in the U.S. But it's a little patronizing to mention Palestinian good behavior as if Palestinians have been bad students for no reason whatsoever. If someone stole our homes and land, we might act up too. Naomi Shihab Nye San Antonio...