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A few months before the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, opened in Dubai, I sat down with the man who designed it, Adrian Smith. We were a long way from the Middle East. Meeting on the High Modernist campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology, just a few el stops from his office in Chicago, Smith exuded the confidence of the mid-twentieth century that had so influenced his architecture.
Colombians can disagree without killing each other. But throughout the country’s history, certain matters have tended to fall outside the scope of peaceful disagreement. It’s about 6 PM on Sunday, October 2. I’m walking down the street when two policemen ask to see my cédula, the same national ID card I used a few hours ago to mark the “yes” box on the plebiscite ballot to ratify the peace deal between the Colombian government and the FARC.
The group meetings were the same—the discussions about the 1996 inmates had been put on hold to develop strategies to protest Modi when he arrived in Delhi a few weeks from now—but Mansoor, sitting on the floor, a mute spectator to the verbal drama, haggard and uneasy, avoiding Ayub, blinking too much, began to notice something strange: his pain had become much worse after the nerve conduction test.
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