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...nature are solitary, mulish creatures, addicted to individuality, holding to their own recalcitrant opinions. The awards they give en masse are an annual attempt at consensus. Audiences thus have the rare opportunity to be guided by the collective will of the "experts," not by the blurbs in a movie ad. Heed the wisdom of the majority...
...technocrats in Beijing pull this off? The country has an advantage: it has not yet leveraged its enormous domestic market. The service sector has huge potential. Consider entrepreneurs like Colleen Wang. Instead of employing low-wage metal benders, Wang's ad agency, Rayken, provides jobs for young, middle-class professionals: graphic designers, art directors, a couple of account executives and several copywriters...
...cover the millions of migrant workers who helped power the country to high growth but are now being laid off. The lack of safety nets demands frugality, as does Chinese cultural tradition that all but dictates that working children care for their parents as they age. Even ad-agency chief Wang takes care of her parents. This requires Chinese to accumulate very large nest eggs, particularly because China's longstanding one-child policy means there is often just one offspring caring for two parents...
...very sensitive to this issue, there is a chance that HMS may still be putting its musicals before its curriculum: neither the show’s producers nor HMS Dean Jeffrey S. Flier could identify the cancer slide shown on the back of the program as part of an ad by the Pathology department. “It looks pretty nasty though,” Flier says. —Mia P. Walker
Some help with the decisions is to come from the Priorities Committee, an ad hoc body that will function until the completion of the Faculty’s budgetary plans in March. Smith will announce the members of the committee at today’s meeting, according to FAS spokesman Robert P. Mitchell...