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...being." Is this a good thing? In Spain, where the trend is similar if less marked, Madrid psychiatrist José Luis Carrasco Perera argues that tourists who substitute several short breaks for one sustained vacation "do not disengage sufficiently - the mind doesn't have time to forget the workplace." Alain de Botton, author of last year's The Art of Travel, agrees: "There's a huge advantage in a long holiday, really getting into a place, getting unwound and also getting bored. You realize the limits of leisure...
...April 8 Faculty meeting, FIPJ member and Pulitzer Professor of Modern Art Yve Alain-Bois read a statement endorsed by dozens of professors saying that Harvard’s investment defense contractors was amoral and in need of discussion...
Reality bit, and deep. In 2001 EMI brought in new top management, including chairman of EMI Recorded Music Alain Levy, to help navigate the brave new digital world. The administration promptly laid off 1,800 employees (20% of EMI's staff), which helped absorb the impact when sales fell 10% in 2002--and created an executive position, global head of antipiracy. It also brought in executive vice president John Rose, an e-commerce ace from consulting firm McKinsey. "The fundamental premise of hiring someone like me," says Rose, "is that this industry needs to be re-engineered." Since last summer...
...head off any technological transfer from the government to radical Islamic groups. Back from his inquiries with a book on the stands, Lévy is once again ensconced in unabashed glamour on the Left Bank. He and Dombasle also own a palace in Marrakech, purchased from the actor Alain Delon. Universally known in France as BHL, he is not shy about putting himself in any available limelight, from Vanity Fair and Paris Match to the pop-culture talk show Everybody's Talking About It. "BHL has learned the lessons of Dubya: pile it on from the first day," hissed...
...since art and antiquites trafficking makes up one of the world’s most sophisticated and powerful crime networks, there is little hope of recovering objects once they leave Iraq, says Associate Professor of Assyriology Paul-Alain Beaulieu...