Five years ago, he installed tracks on the ceiling and rollers to build a sliding wall system to transform the open-plan studio apartment into many different rooms.

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The entire floor and ceiling of this building are parts of an air circulation system that works very hard and makes noise enough to prove it.

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The ceiling, which had to be removed to allow the installation of a sprinkler system, will be copied and rebuilt.

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His latest speech on the debt ceiling crisis and his speeches on the fiscal cliff have shown him to be as much a part of the broken system in Washington as anyone else.

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