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Thursday, November 03, 2005

Reconstructing a Broken Something


Does this dude already look like
a university president, or what?







Washington DC’s highly competent Mayor, Anthony Williams, may be interested in taking over the post-Ladner American University. UD likes this comment of his, which is not about AU in particular but tells you something:


Development, reconstruction, bad situations I find very exciting. What I'm fascinated by is development in the sense of reconstructing a broken something.


via dcist