Vancouver President Obama is convening the twice delayed political summit (no-non-pols invited) at the White House to discuss comprehensive immigration reform. This should be good news, but the political framing is depressing. It seems that this critical issue is now a HUGE political football being played to see whether the Democrats or Republicans will get …
Month: June 2009
Name Games
Rome I should have suspected that being without internet and simply depending on my Blackberry while in Sicily was still a dangerous thing to do, and sure enough as I was being driven to the Catania airport I got a message from a reporter for the Washington Times named Amanda Carpenter asking about ACORN International’s …
Labrino
Rome Labrino was designed as a plan for a new city (la nuova citta) by the famous architect, Kenzo Tange, and his associates based in Tokyo in the early 1970’s. Groundbreaking on the first building was in 1976. This was a grand plan designed for 70,000 people. There were ten sections of Labrino which would each house …