Aim at Saddam's face

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In the Middle East, losing one's face is more humiliating than losing a war. Any policy by the Clinton administration regarding the Iraq conflict should provide a crippling blow to the political face of Saddam. This can be achieved by making criminals out of the people close to Saddam.

author: Makiya, Kanan
United States, Influence, International relations, Hussein, Saddam

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The street is dead in Baghdad

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Contemporary Iraqi architecture is both a symbol of the awesome power of the government and the destruction of public spaces. In comparison, modern monuments and architectural works in the US and most of East Asia are representative of the loss of meaning and the sense of shared space.

author: Makiya, Kanan
Monuments, Baghdad, Iraq (City)

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If Salman Rushdie designed Tokyo

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Noted architect Frank Gehry, who claims that architecture should center on a sense of movement, always attempts to freeze both stillness and movement in his architecture. He means to create order out of a disorderly world that he feels is increasingly growing chaotic.

Interview, Gehry, Frank

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subjects list: Social aspects, Analysis, Architecture, Architecture and society
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