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Tracy Varner

As American as Modern Architecture - 0 views

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      Is this good info for our paper?
  • 20th century's greatest architects, including Eliel Saarinen, Eero Saarinen, Cesar Pelli, Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel, Richard Meier, Robert Venturi, Kevin Roche and I.M. Pei.
  • The Republic, founded, owned and operated by five generations of a local family, the Browns, is Columbus, Indiana's hometown daily. Columbus is a city of about 44,000 people, an hour south of Indianapolis.
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  • Miller started with a building, one that no one would ignore -- an elementary school.
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    "Harry McCawley looks and sounds like a small-town character, in the best tradition. "It billed itself as the world's fastest growing newspaper," he recalled of his employer, The Republic, when he was hired 49 years ago. McCawley, 71, now associate editor, with a head of white hair and wearing a blue button-down shirt open at the collar, tilted back in his seat, a touch of Mark Twain, Frank Capra and Thornton Wilder in his story. "I got there, and realized that they came by that because they'd only been in business a couple of days," he said."
Tracy Varner

Saturday's debt-ceiling surprise: GOP and Obama are talking again - 0 views

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      Found this but I'm not sure if this is what we are looking for...
  • There were signs of movement toward a potential resolution of the federal government's debt ceiling crisis after both the House and Senate met in unusual Saturday sessions notable for partisan fireworks.
  • House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D) of California and Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D) of Nevada were called to the White House for a 3:30 p.m. meeting about debt-ceiling negotiations with President Obama.
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  • Senator McConnell said that he had spoken to both Mr. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden "in the last hour," and that the White House was "now fully engaged" in conversations with the two Republican leaders about the debt-ceiling crisis.
  • On Saturday, House Republicans essentially showed the Senate that it could play the same game.
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    "There were signs of movement toward a potential resolution of the federal government's debt ceiling crisis after both the House and Senate met in unusual Saturday sessions notable for partisan fireworks."
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