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Praguc Quadrennial. This special PQ'99 issuc. in a rerr sl"ll1metrical llIrn of thc Irheel. is a
beginning of sorts too: Ire harc just sign cd an agrccment Irilh L'srrr 10 edil TD& r for llro
more rears. and Ire hope to continuc Ihis Irondcrful job for manr marc. \\'hat happened to mr
pronouncement Ihal the summer issuc Iras mI' last" Well. it's a storr too long to be
appropriatc for this column. but onc thaI can bc summed in onc l\"Orel-friends.
L'SITT is manr Ihings to manr peoplc. but I think most II"0uid agrcc that Ihe rerr best

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PEGGY ROSE FELDT & SUZY CAMPBELL
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membership benefit. the thing thaI keeps pcople renelring rear after ycar. is fricndships.

PATRICK M. FINELLI
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Spccial thanks to Srlria ).11. Pannell. chair of the Publications Commitlee: l.eon Brauner.

NANCY ARNFIELD
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L'SITT president: .Joy Emery. rice-prcsidcnt for communications: and her successor Eric

JERRY GORRELL
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Fielding. interim rice-president for communications.
This spccial focus issuc on the Praguc Quadrcnnial Il"as initiated in ml" rerr brief ab ence

WILLIAM B. HEKTNER
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bl" Dick Durst. Bruce Brockman and Sarah \ash Gatcs. Ther persuadcd scrcral members of

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the LS. delegation to share their Ihoughts about PQ. and ther asked Del L'nruh. longtime

ROBERT L. SMITH & HEIDI HOFFER
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contributor to TD&T and something of an cxPCrt on intcrnational dcsign. to be guest editor.

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Manr Ihanks to ercrrone and especially to Eric Ficlding Irho prorided so many of the photos

BILL BROWNING
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ELBIN CLEVELAND
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Dcl L'nruh I\TOtC a lhought-proroking piccc Ihal Iras much too
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