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 The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
- Thomas Jefferson

Buenos Aires - It’s one of those quirky little things that somehow or other doesn’t even register. I’ve wandered through the parque Barrancas del Belgrano (the Belgrano Barracks, which is what used to be on the site of this [...]

 Although the Assembly of 1813, as a representative body, did not comply with its fundamental objective of sanctioning a constitution, it developed a vast legislative activity pro individual freedom and constituted the opening into new institutional modes. From the point of view of the political organization, it established a Unipersonal Executive Power, creating the position [...]

 Se es mas feliz viviendo en una cabana dentro de un parque que en un palacio sin jardin. [One is happier living in a cabin in a park than in a palace without a garden.]
- Carlos Thays, French landscape architect
Buenos Aires - Despite having designed some of Buenos Aires’ most important parks - the Bosque [...]

 Stay the course.”
- George W. Bush, president of the U.S.
Buenos Aires - One of the things that fascinates me about history is the way it repeats itself. Despite all those colloquial admonitions about “those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them”, it’s a common failing throughout the world. We’re seeing it [...]

 As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to [...]

 …we now live in the second robber baron era. One of the things that happens in such times is that the wealthy and powerful get to construct huge building and homes. Yet, however we may feel about the 19th century power hoggers, we are still attracted to the architecture and structures they were rich enough [...]

 Treebeard marched on, signing with the others for a while. But after a time, his voice died to a murmur and fell silent again. Pippin could see that his old brow was wrinkled and knotted. At last he looked up, and Pippin could see a sad look in his eyes, sad but not unhappy. There [...]

 You shouldn’t speak until you know what you’re talking about. That’s why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? They hand me a script. I’m a grown man who puts on makeup.”
- Brad Pitt, Actor
Buenos Aires - A [...]