Cases which usually would be dealt with by magistrates courts could now be referred to crown court for tougher sentences Magistrates are being advised by the courts service to disregard normal sentencing guidelines when dealing with those convicted of offences committed in the context of last week’s riots. The advice, given in open court by justices’ clerks, will result in cases that would usually be disposed of in magistrates courts being referred to the crown court for more severe punishment. It may explain why some of those convicted have received punitive sentences for offences that might normally attract a far shorter term. In Manchester, a mother of two, Ursula Nevin, was jailed for five months for receiving a pair of shorts given to her after they had been looted from a city centre store. In Brixton, south London, a 23-year-old student was jailed for six months for stealing £3.50 worth of water bottles from a supermarket. The Crown Prosecution Service also issued guidance to prosecutors on Monday, effectively calling for juveniles found guilty of riot-related crimes to be named and shamed. Those dealt with in youth courts are normally not identified. The youngest suspects bought before the courts last week in connection with the riots were an 11-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy. The sentencing advice from Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service came to light after the chair of Camberwell Green magistrates court, Novello Noades, claimed that the court had been given a government “directive” that anyone involved in the rioting be given a custodial sentence. She later retracted her statement and said she was mortified to have used the term “directive”. Clarifying what had occurred, HMCTS explained that a senior clerk had circulated instructions to court clerks that they should advise magistrates to consider disregarding normal sentencing guidelines. “Sentencing is a matter for the independent judiciary,” it said. “Under the Criminal Procedure Rules justices’ clerks and legal advisers in magistrates courts have a responsibility to give advice to magistrates on sentencing guidelines. “All advice is given in open court and the parties are entitled to comment. Accordingly magistrates in London are being advised by their legal advisers to consider whether their powers of punishment are sufficient in dealing with some cases arising from the recent disorder. “Magistrates are independent and not subject to direction from their legal advisers.” The advice was issued last week in the aftermath of the riots. It was given, it is said, to ensure consistency of sentencing across the country. Courts can therefore consider the riots as an aggravating factor in any offence, making stealing from looted shops more serious than conventional shoplifting. Last week, David Cameron told the recalled House of Commons that anyone involved in violent disorder should expect to go to prison. The Ministry of Justice denied that it had asked the HMCTS to issue the advice. The Judicial Communications Office, which issues statements on behalf of judges, also dismissed suggestions it had been involved. “The senior judiciary has given no directive in relation to sentencing for offences committed during the recent widespread public disorder,” it said. “When passing sentences judges consider many factors, including the punishment of offenders, the reduction of crime by deterrence, and the need to protect the public.” Magistrates can only sentence offenders to up to six months in prison for a single offence. The chairman of the Magistrates’ Association, John Thornhill, has been pressing the government to raise the maximum sentencing power of magistrates to 12 months. “Many of these cases would have been dealt with more expeditiously and cheaper if we had the 12 month sentencing powers,” Thornhill said. “They would not have needed to be sent to the crown courts.” In its advice on identifying youths, the CPS said: “We have issued guidance to prosecutors that states they should ask the court to lift the anonymity of a youth defendant when they believe it is required in the public interest that the youth be identified. Legislation permits the court to do so after conviction. These representations will be made on a case-by-case basis.” Among the criteria the court should consider when identifying any juvenile is whether the move is “necessary, proportionate and there must be a pressing social need for it”. Among those appearing before City of Westminster magistrates court on Monday was Wilson Unses Garcia, 42, of Walworth, south London. He was jailed for six months for receiving stolen property: two tennis racquets worth £340 looted from a sports shop in south London. When police searched his property, they found the racquets still in wrapping and with price labels on them. Garcia said he had had the racquets for some time. Police said he later told them: “I knew it was not right the minute they put them into my hand.” His solicitor told the court that Garcia, who pleaded guilty, had not participated in looting, did not agree with the rioting and had accepted the racquets from a man he knew only from his first name as payment of a £20 debt.A pregnant woman accused of hoarding £10,000 of electronic equipment looted during the London riots has been remanded in custody ahead of her trial. Alicia Wilkinson, 22, was discovered with a vast amount of stolen guitars, televisions and hair braiding equipment when police raided her home in Outram Road, Croydon, at the weekend. The Gatwick airport worker, who is due to give birth in four months, was denied bail after pleading not guilty to handling stolen goods at Croydon magistrates court. Robert Simpson, prosecuting, told the court the flat was “noticeably packed” with the equipment, much of which had been looted from Croydon electronics store Richer Sounds at the peak of the chaos on 8 August. Wilkinson claims she returned from housesitting for her mother to find the flat she shares with boyfriend Nick Cuffy and his brother Neil was full of the haul, the court heard. Her defence solicitor told district judge Robert Hunter she was a “highly unlikely defendant”, adding it had “played on her mind ever since then about the right course of action to take”. UK riots UK criminal justice Owen Bowcott Stephen Bates guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Gary Giordano, Man Held In Disappearance Of Missing Tourist Robyn Gardner, Had Troubled Past With Women
August 15, 2011 No Comment
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The man authorities suspect was involved in the death of his travel companion while visiting Aruba courted other women with his blue-green eyes, offers of cruises and vacations, and his $1.3 million stone mansion. But Gary V. Giordano’s ex-romantic interests say the allure was only surface-deep. Giordano, 50, a self-employed businessman and twice-divorced father of three sons, has denied any wrongdoing through his attorney since the disappearance of 35-year-old Robyn Gardner, who authorities believe is dead. Her remains have not been found, despite four days of searching the area where Giordano told officials an ocean current pulled her away Aug. 2 as they snorkeled. FBI agents combed through Giordano’s home Friday night in Gaithersburg, an upper-middle class Washington suburb. On Saturday, Solicitor General Taco Stein said a pink shirt and black sandals found during a search of an abandoned phosphate mine – near where Giordano told authorities Gardner disappeared – did not belong to the woman. The exact nature of their relationship isn’t clear. Gardner had a boyfriend back home in Maryland. Giordano was detained at the airport about a week ago as he tried to fly back to the U.S. after the official search had ended. Authorities say they doubt certain aspects of his story, including whether the pair even went into the water, and they’re seeking witnesses to build their case against him. His family has stayed mum, though a close friend said he can’t imagine Giordano being involved in someone’s death. Giordano has told authorities that Gardner, a platinum blonde who loved tennis and running, never made it back to shore after the two became separated. His lawyer, Michael Lopez, said Giordano tapped on Gardner’s leg to signal that they should swim back after it became clear that they were being pulled out to sea. He said Giordano noticed that she didn’t return to shore with him and ran to get help. “Our client emphatically denies being involved in any malicious act concerning his friend and consequently does not consider himself a suspect,” Lopez said in a statement this week. The judge can extend Giordano’s detention order for a maximum of eight days at a hearing scheduled for Monday. After that, prosecutors could ask a judge to order Giordano held for as long as 60 days while they prepare a case, but that would require more substantial evidence. ROBYN GARDNER PHOTOS: Court records and former romantic interests reveal Giordano could by turns be charming and threatening. “He can’t control his anger,” his first wife, Sharon Cohen, wrote in court papers in 2001. Giordano married Cohen in 1987, several years after earning a degree in computer science from the University of Maryland. The couple had three sons, but the relationship deteriorated. They finalized their divorce in 2003. At one point, each accused the other of abuse, with Giordano alleging that his wife struck him in the back with a steel cooking spoon during a heated argument. She countered that he had a nasty temper, throwing phones, cursing and becoming violent with one of their sons. Even after they divorced, court records show, the couple has argued over money, child support payments and parenting obligations for their sons – a 19-year-old and 14-year-old twins. A young man who answered the door at Cohen’s house and identified himself as one of her sons said the family had no comment. Giordano’s mother also declined to comment. Court papers also indicate Giordano can be an attentive father, insisting that a son who was struggling in school devote time to his studies. He lived close to his ex-wife and children, in a contemporary home set apart from the neighborhood by a long, ascending driveway. A sign on the front door advises visitors they’re under surveillance. A security camera is mounted atop a gable. Though his house suggests a man who values his privacy, Giordano is also gregarious and fun, said Eric Curtis, a friend who said he regularly hangs out with him in restaurants and bars. He said he’s never even seen Giordano raise his voice. “He’d talk to anybody, male or female, and within minutes, he’d have anybody laughing,” Curtis said. Giordano and his second wife divorced in 2008 after just two years. Court records don’t suggest an especially acrid relationship. In the three years since, other women he dated – many of them thin and blond like Gardner – found that their romantic relationships with him turned ugly. One woman accused him of threatening her by saying “the world would be better off without me” and of videotaping their sexual encounters without her consent. The woman met with prosecutors, but told authorities she didn’t want to pursue the case, said Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy. Attorney Gail Landau, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition that her client’s name be withheld, said her client was too frightened of Giordano to move forward with the case. She claimed in court documents that Giordano retaliated by putting letters and photos of her on her neighbors’ mailboxes. He claimed she had slandered him in emails and letters and requested his own restraining order. Steven Kupferberg, a lawyer who has recently represented Giordano, did not return calls from AP, but he told The Washington Post that the sex tape allegations were likely exaggerated. “I suspect that there wasn’t anything to the allegations in terms of illegality,” Kupferberg told the newspaper. Jeanette Farago, a former neighbor, started dating Giordano around the time of his second divorce. She said Giordano was charismatic but could become angry and possessive, though she said she never felt physically threatened. Once, he wanted to take her on a cruise but became irate when she didn’t want to go, she said. Farago said Giordano insisted on having her email password so he could ensure she was not seeing anyone else. If she said she was going to the grocery store, he would want photographic proof. Sometimes, she said, he would spy on her and text her details of her outfit so she knew he was watching. He even hid in the woods behind her home to watch her, dressing in a deer costume, she said. “He’s Mr. Perfect,” she said, and then he’s “totally different.” ___ Associated Press writers David Dishneau in Frederick, Md., Ben Fox in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Dilma Arends Geerman in Oranjestad, Aruba, contributed to this report. WATCH:
Continue reading …This campaign strategy doesn’t many any sense at all to me. I don’t know what good appealing to the middle will do when so many Democratic voters are disgusted enough not to vote at all. We’re in the middle of economic devastation unknown in our lifetime, and we’d like to see our president show more concern about that than his own reelection: Obama’s jobs agenda, which he plans to tout on his Midwestern tour, calls for $30 billion to rebuild roads, bridges and ports; improvements to the patent system to spur innovation; trade deals with a trio of countries to boost exports; a $40-billion extension of unemployment insurance benefits; and renewal of the current one-year reduction of the payroll tax at a cost of up $120 billion. A range of economists and Democratic critics call those ideas inadequate. Asked about Obama’s support for free-trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a center-left think tank, said, “I would think they would be embarrassed to mention it.” “These are small countries, and we already have a lot of trade with them,” he added. Obama’s policies “are just not big enough to make much of a difference,” said Robert Reich, who was Labor secretary under President Clinton. Alternative ideas have been floating up from Democratic think tanks, elected officials and strategists: Peter R. Orszag, Obama’s former budget director, advocates tripling the size of the payroll tax break — essentially wiping out the payroll tax entirely — and keeping the rate low as long as unemployment remains high. This is one of the stupider ideas I’ve seen. In addition to robbing Social Security by cutting those taxes, people aren’t going to spend that money on anything more than the increased price of food and gas. There won’t be any left over to stimulate the economy in any meaningful way. Others are pressing Obama to take advantage of low interest rates and borrow money to underwrite a far larger public works program. Such a plan would spur enough long-term economic growth to pay off the extra debt, supporters argue. Mark Zandi, an economist who has advised the Obama administration, suggests making it easier for homeowners to refinance mortgages at today’s extremely low rates. The idea would be to eliminate charges that currently make it too costly for some people to refinance. He also advises changing immigration policies so that foreign students with advanced degrees find it easier to stay in the U.S. Still, “There’s no magic bullet here,” Zandi said. White House aides counter that large-scale, costly ideas stand little chance of getting through the Republican-controlled House. But it’s no sure bet that Congress will go along with smaller-scale ideas either. Republican leadership aides said the GOP was supportive of the trade deals and a patent overhaul, although both have stalled several times this year. Obama’s call for renewing the payroll tax cut has drawn fire from some Republicans, who argue it would worsen the deficit, and the GOP has also opposed his plan to extend unemployment insurance. Pollster Stanley B. Greenberg, who polled for Clinton’s White House, said voters had little patience for political leaders who limited policy proposals to what the opposition would support. White House officials can “get trapped in ‘what can get through Congress’ and the constraints of that debate,” Greenberg said, recalling similar arguments in the Clinton years. “Voters want you to break out of that” and answer the question, “What are you battling for?” he said. The complaints about Obama come not only from long-standing critics, but from some who have been supportive in the past. One Democratic congressman who has defended Obama to fellow liberals said he told White House officials at a recent meeting that they seemed to have Stockholm syndrome — embracing the Republican view that deficit reduction should be a major national priority, in the manner of hostages who come to sympathize with their captors. Obama “sat in the room with Republicans so long talking about deficit reduction that he seems to be parroting the same lines,” said the congressman, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private meetings.
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After confessing to his wife last year that he’d had flings with numerous women–he wasn’t sure how many but guesstimated “about 10″ in their five-year relationship — Mark Owen, a member of the Brit pop band Take That, did what a lot of guys might do to make things better: He tried to buy her back. Not with Tiffany diamond earrings or a sleek new Mercedes, but the promise of a $3.6 million house. It must have worked. Although they’re still looking for the house of their dreams, they’re still together and Take That is out with a new double CD and a tour. No surprise the 39-year-old singer’s two kids and wife Emma Ferguson are along for the ride. It isn’t all that unusual for a couple to want to try to reconcile; the devil you know is often better than the one you don’t, says Arlene Dubin, author of “Prenups for Lovers.” Says Dubin: “Reconciliation is not uncommon, especially today. When people go through the process, they take a fresh look at themselves and their partners, and they often decide that the good outweighs the bad. They’re face to face with the reality of what life would be like without their spouse.” Former supermodel and mom of three Stephanie Seymour called off her divorce from multi-millionaire Peter Brant late last year. And then the newly revived lovebirds promptly did what Owen and Ferguson did–they went townhouse-hunting in tony Central Park neighborhoods. Divorce is tough, even when it’s amicable–it’s expensive, emotionally and financially draining, and things can get ugly pretty quick. Throw kids into the mix and the impacts of divorce can be deep and long-lasting. Depending on the issues, it often makes sense to at least try to salvage a marriage, experts agree. And like Owen and Seymour, some couples consider remodeling or moving into a new home for a “fresh start” or going on an exotic vacation to renew the spark as the place to start. “Very often, its because one partner realizes there’s something wrong and thinks that something new–a new home, going on vacation–is going to be the solution,” says Hara Estroff Marano, editor at large of Psychology Today and author of “A Nation of Wimps.” It’s well intentioned, she says, but misguided. “When these last-ditch efforts are made, it means that the marriage is in trouble,” says Michele Weiner-Davis, director of the Divorce Busting Center and author of “The Sex-Starved Marriage” and “The Divorce Remedy.” She continues: “While an exotic vacation might be fun or even remind people why they got together in the first place, the problem is, vacations end.” A new home isn’t much better, Estroff Marano says. “The very fact of creating a new home can tear a family apart.” Few may know that better than Marni Jameson. “Buying a new house does stir things up,” says the syndicated home design columnist and author of “House of Havoc” and “The House Always Wins.” Although she knows one couple for whom a new home pushed the reset button on their struggling 25-year marriage, Jameson ended her first marriage when she realized the numerous visits to the new home she and her first husband were considering upgrading to made her ill whenever she envisioned him “walking down the hallway in his bathrobe.” She and her second husband started off their marriage by remodeling a home and have since built two more together. “Whenever we got to the point of divorcing, negotiations broke down over who would get the house. Neither of us wanted it. So we slugged it out. In the end, we were too exhausted to do anything drastic, so we made up.” Says Bruce A. Clemens, a longtime Beverly Hills divorce attorney, “Relationships that are already troubled can rarely withstand the stress of remodeling.” But the worst way to try to salvage a marriage may be to have a baby. “A lot of the time, people are feeling a loss of connection and love in their marriage, so they kind of hold this fantasy that if they have a child that that will bring everything back to being OK,” says Oregon therapist Debbie Bensching. “Part of it’s an idealization, and the solution to fixing a problem.” It’s often the woman’s idea, says Colorado social worker and marriage therapist Enda Junkins. “She thinks if she gets pregnant, she can hang onto the husband, because ‘We’re having this baby together,’ which is not a good reason to stay together or to have a child.” Having a baby adds incredible stress on a marriage, Estroff Marano says. “People think having a baby is a kind of a cement and it’s generally nothing of the kind. Babies make demands that take time away from each other,” she says. “Babies take women out of the workforce, away from peers, it isolates them, and completely takes you away from what you’ve been doing.” Up to 90 percent of couples say they are stressed, conflicted and less satisfied in their marriage after the birth of a baby, according to the Gottman Institute and other studies. Some of those couples split–about 12.5 percent of couples divorce or separate by the time their first-born is 18 months old, according to Carolyn Pape Cowan and husband Philip Cowan, co-directors of the Schoolchildren and their Families Project and authors of “When Partners Become Parents.” Then the new mom can have an entirely new set of problems–society isn’t too keen on single moms, and having a new baby limits a mom’s mobility and as well as her desirability in the dating arena, Estroff Marano says. Of course, the baby doesn’t fare any better. “If children come into the world with the burden of saving a marriage, as many do, they sense it,” says single dad Joe Sindoni, author of “50 Reasons to Not Have Kids: And What to Do If You Have Them Anyway.” Then the child feels responsible if his parents split, or tries to fix things before they do. “It’s a big load to put on such little shoulders,” he says. So if a week in Bali, a new or renovated house, or a baby won’t salvage a marriage, what will? Not surprisingly, therapists recommend therapy. Not just anyone, says Weiner-Davis, but a “therapist who believes in the sanctity of marriage, not due to religious reasons necessarily, but because there are far too many unnecessary divorces.” Weiner-Davis believes in marital education, too. Many couples “don’t know how to negotiate, collaborate and demonstrate caring about each other’s feelings. And believe it or not, these are skills that can be learned.” And if a couple’s struggling because of an affair, “both partners need to be curious about (why the affair happened) and delve honestly and deeply into the truth and take a fair share of responsibility for what went wrong,” says Janis Abrahms Spring, author of “After the Affair” and “How Can I Forgive You?” “They also need to talk out and listen to each other’s hurts, and show they care about what the other is experiencing.” Distractions, she says, “won’t heal the wound.” Still, it sounds kind of nice to “delve honestly and deeply into the truth” while learning to “negotiate, collaborate and demonstrate caring about each other’s feelings” fresh from the sandy beaches of Bali and back in your new $3.6 million house.
Continue reading …Debt-Panel Faces Pressure From Lawmakers’ Backers. What A Shame If They Can’t Agree On Cutting Social Security And Medicare!
August 14, 2011 No Comment
enlarge Credit: MainLine Peace Action A Republican think tank hack quoted in this story uses classic misdirection techniques . He equates Democrats lobbying for senior citizens on behalf of Social Security and Medicare with … Republican “distaste” for tax increases. Yoo hoo, Mr. Frenzel? The difference is, rich people aren’t going to die if they don’t get their way: The 12-member congressional panel charged with finding $1.5 trillion in budget savings may be unable to overcome resistance from the lobbyists, donors and interest groups that sustain them in office. The committee, already split by internal divisions over taxes and entitlements, will examine defense and health care for possible cuts, and both industries have influence with its members. Health professionals are the biggest donors to three of the House members. Three senators have dozens of military installations to protect, and employees of defense contractor Boeing Co. (BA) are top donors to the panel’s co-chairwoman, Patty Murray. Retirees are among the largest givers to almost all the lawmakers, and members considering scaling back Social Security or the Medicare insurance program for the elderly will confront a barrage of lobbying by the seniors’ group AARP. “Nobody wants to promise their cohorts any kind of pain and suffering or divergence from the current theology,” said Bill Frenzel, a former congressman who served as the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee. Republican distaste for tax increases and Democrats’ insistence on protecting entitlement programs is a “doomsday formula,” he said.
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Bert and Ernie will not be getting married. To each other, or anyone else. The demands of a petition calling for Bert and Ernie to get married, which has become an internet sensation in the last few years, has been gently denied by the Sesame Street Workshop, who issued this statement on their Facebook page: Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves. Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets™ do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation. This isn’t the first time the organization has moved to deny a sexual relationship between their two roommate puppets; in June 2010, a tweet sent from the Sesame Street Twitter account from Bert that said his mohawk was more “mo” than “hawk” was suspected by bloggers to be a sort of coded acknowledgment of their relationship. Bloggers also took as a hint the large number of gay guest stars from that season, to which Sesame Street responded, “We’ve always reached out to a variety of actors and athletes and celebrities to appear on the show, and our programming has always appealed to adults as much as children.”
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This week, I’m going to try and inspire you by showcasing my selection of Top 10 Architects’ homes. When recently I came across the ABC series In the mind of the architect, I was thrilled to see the first episode featuring Sean Godsell and his own Kew House designed for his family. As his buildings possess a certain radical austerity and experiment, Godsell’s home expectedly showcased his own theoretical and architectural explorations put into practice. While the camera was rotating around the elegant metal-and-glass structure, his wife commented that “Living here is about accepting the fact that you are in a very public domain. It’s accepting the fact that your husband has a profession and the profession involves experimenting in the private domain.” One would almost admire her understanding learning that very soon after they moved in she had to get used to changing in the cupboard as there were no blinds even in the all-glass master bedroom. According to Godsell himself, “It’s a symbolic gesture as well as a pragmatic one, but it forces a socialization that we need to deal with as a society in Australia. It forces tolerance within the house.” Yet the daring and beautiful house enjoyed little tolerance from outsiders, often subjected to offensive remarks comparing it to a fish bowl, a zoo and even Auschwitz. “There is the house you dream about living in and then the house you actually live in. Architects’ houses are a third thing: we want to live in them, we dream to live in them and then we have to live in them.”says architect David Luck. And while Godsell could probably get over his symbolic and pragmatic gesture being compared to a Nazi camp, urban myths say that a family member broke his leg while trying to inhabit the famous Stonehouse of the radical Austrian Gunther Domenig. After more than 20 years of design and construction, the completion of Domenig’s magnum opus in 2008 was celebrated by visionary architects like Thom Mayne, Wolf D. Prix and Hans Hollein. According to Lebbeus Woods, it was conceived as “a work of architecture limited only by [Domenig's] imagination and skill, at once a manifesto and an experiment, the outcome of which he could not be sure of at the beginning.” And while it is called a house and its interior suggests this, the architect actually never cared much for living there; Domenig observed the construction of his ever-changing beautiful monster from a small trailer in the back yard, where he used to stay. Currently the Stonehouse is a cultural icon, housing concerts, as well as being featured in numerous magazines and television programs. The Top 10 shows more examples of Architects designing their homes – and there is more on the topic after the break. Perhaps an architect’s home is a dream come true, a chance to unleash one’s own creativity and design philosophy, often constrained by clients, cost, programme and functionality – after all, which self-respecting contractor would understand that something as trivial as blinds in the bedroom compromises the socio-political message of the building? And in the case of visionaries, it often means imposing one’s own quest into the possibilities of architecture to their families, which have to accept the necessary margin of error in experimentation. However, designing one’s own house is something more than simply conducting a spatial experiment on daily life. “We should make our buildings first, then learn how to live in them.”, says Lebbeus Woods and the common mantra of clients that “my house should be a reflection of my personality” here deepens to often very candid, poetic explorations of daily life and the inherent belief that architecture can actually transform people, that rather being simply a construct of comfort and utility it is a being on its own, a series of psychological snapshots of the paths one’s mind took while creating and inhabiting it. Perhaps I’m stretching a bit too far here: as you’ll see some of the selected designs are pretty much common-sense and would work for the majority of us, as they respond to contemporary trends and aesthetics in a tasteful, yet predictable way. And while Stonehouse could be simply seen as the expression of an egomanic spirit who had seemingly departed from the human concerns for functionality, cost and physical safety, I prefer what Lebbeus Woods has to say for it: “The Stonehouse belongs to a different world than the one we normally inhabit, and it dares us to find ways to inhabit it, or even to talk about it. Yet here it is, both realized, and real. How real are we, as we stand in confrontation with this difficult work of architecture? Let us be grateful to Günther Domenig for giving us a chance to find out.”
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Gunmen abducted an American after breaking into his house in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Saturday in an unusually brazen raid. (Aug. 13)
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