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...inject a bit more meaning into this semester's schedule: volunteer, take a break, close the books for even a brief encounter with the real world. Whether it's social action or political activism, do what you can to make a difference beyond the Ivory Tower...
...that many people are convinced is the seed of a new city. Investors have pulled together roughly a quarter of a billion dollars that will bring to the Delaware waterfront the headquarters for GE Aerospace, plus a hotel, waterfront park, the nation's second largest aquarium and an office tower to contain the world headquarters of Campbell's Soup. The hope, says Thomas Corcoran, president of the Coopers Ferry Development Association, is that the complex will strengthen the tax base, bring in new jobs and restore to the residents a much needed sense of civic pride...
...fine new library. Such happy assimilation: the $9 million structure, which fits into and improves a campus blessed with distinguished buildings, is among Stern's best work. It is Richardsonian (the arches, the churchlike massing) but not slavishly old-fashioned, and the jaunty bits (the eyebrow dormers and the tower) mitigate any neo-Victorian lugubriousness...
...fine new library. Such happy assimilation: the $9 million structure, which fits into and improves a campus blessed with distinguished buildings, is among Stern's best work. It is Richardsonian (the arches, the churchlike massing) but not slavishly old-fashioned, and the jaunty bits (the eyebrow dormers and the tower) mitigate any neo-Victorian lugubriousness...
King Richard III was a monster. He poisoned his wife, stole the throne from his two young nephews and ordered them to be smothered in the Tower of London. Richard was a sort of Antichrist the King -- "that bottled spider, that pois'nous bunch-back'd toad...