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So here's the setup. I was on the red line of the T (Boston’s subway) and a guy (pictured here on his knees) starts talking to himself in a loud and agitated way. He looks borderline between hipster and crazy. But as he's talking, I realize that it's Shakespeare, and then that it's a soliloquy from Hamlet.

Eric fisher maps out the sometimes natural, sometimes not-so-natural ethnic segregation of American cities. Most interesting is the comparison between more or less fractal ethnic islands in New York City and the sudden demarcation of ethnic territory in Detroit.

Arabs view their conditions 1000 years ago as more prominent, successful and flourishing than their current condition today. While Europe was living its “dark ages”, Arabs were dominating the world physically, intellectually, and scientifically. References to the past are always made to those glorious days of the past.

We are facing competition, unfortunately supported by the Italian press as being of comparable value to our more radical proposals for rebuilding, coming from young architects who are still fixated upon formal geometries and propose some superficial changes such as paint, making the wall surfaces look "contemporary", and other palliatives.