Such is the power of the Aronoff Center that the architects' panel discussion, which was supposed to take as its topic all of architecture at the end of the 20th century, kept coming back to the building itself.

Welcome to Teeing Off, where Devil Ball editor Jay Busbee and head writer Shane Bacon take a day's topic and smack it all over the course.

In her speech to the Academy, she took as her topic "The Chinese Novel."