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...five-minute drive away from Young Park stands Taylor Elementary. This is the neighborhood school of white children from the large houses on the surrounding tree-lined streets; and of black children from nearby, mostly working-class neighborhoods. Sixty-one percent of Taylor's 433 children are white, and only 30% qualify for the free-lunch program. One hundred percent of the children's parents are in the pta, which runs 22 committees. In 1994, 88% of Taylor's fourth-graders surpassed national norms on standardized tests. At Young Park...
...often sat at its head. He was among the first of a new breed of black Washington insiders with the connections and influence to make things happen for clients as diverse as civil rights leaders and fat-cat corporate executives. Jesse Jackson, for one, describes himself as "a tree shaker, not a jelly maker." Brown was just the reverse, a jelly maker par excellence...
...friends who have walk-throughs while you luxuriate in spacious singles. Sure, it's far away, but it's nice to actually go home at the end of the day and feel like you're home; the neighborhood north of the Quad is gorgeous, with many old houses and tree-lined streets. Porter Square is 10 minutes away, with 24-hour Dunkin' Donuts, CVS and Star Market; the grassy Quad itself is great for picnics and frisbee...
...riches, did that not mean that the world was Satan's to give? In time, Jesus would be the spirit of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, giving Adam and Eve a chance to escape from their dastardly creator with a taste of the fruit of the tree of knowledge...
...different too." One consistent element in Koolhaas' buildings, however, is a relaxed attitude toward detailing and a willingness to use extremely cheap materials. In Kunsthal, an art gallery in Rotterdam, he used unfinished concrete and corrugated plastic for walls, metal grids for flooring, naked fluorescent tubes for lighting and tree trunks for pillars and a balustrade. "Architecture is always the encounter of vision and circumstance," he says. The Dutch, Koolhaas explains, don't believe in spending a lot of money on buildings. "So there's no choice but to build with really cheap materials...