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Tag: 08.04.08
Beijing’s New Olympic Architecture – A Battle For Credit
Beijing is full of glitzy new buildings built for the Olympics. Some of the world’s most prestigious architects were recruited for the job. But “China’s preparations provoked an intense and unusually open debate here about the relationship between architecture and nationalism.In recent weeks, the Chinese press, in the sort of quasi-Orwellian turn it has nearly perfected, has begun to give primary design credit for the Bird’s Nest to the local architects who aided Herzog & De Meuron in executing it. Some news reports have excised the Swiss firm completely.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Life of Struggle
The passing of Nobel Prize winner, foremost contemporary Russian novelist, and former Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn over the weekend warrants recounting the stations of his lifelong struggle against totalitarianism.
Bashful Berlusconi Covers Up
Aside from fending off accusations of crypto-fascism, Italy’s current Prime Minister must now defend himself against claims that he ordered the censoring of an all-too-anatomically-correct painting of 18th-century Venetian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo hanging in his office.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 89
“Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. Solzhenitsyn’s unflinching accounts of torment and survival in the Soviet Union’s slave labor camps riveted his countrymen, whose secret history he exposed.”