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That's why we decided to add a new feature to our political coverage: the Defining Moment. In a series of biographical pieces on the major candidates, we identify a pivotal event in their personal or political life and explore how it altered them forever. We begin this week with Karen Tumulty's look at how Mitt Romney, as Massachusetts Governor, applied his businessman's mind to the seemingly intractable problem of health care and devised a plan to insure all his state's citizens--an achievement he now downplays to conservative audiences...
When he returned to the U.S. in 1968 to begin graduate work at Yale, Puryear discovered minimalism. Donald Judd's boxes, Carl Andre's metal plates on the floor--there was a whole new world of militant reduction in art, of fiercely simplified forms, preferably in factory-milled materials. Meanwhile he also discovered the virtuoso cabinet maker James Krenov, who was asking how the individual qualities of each piece of wood could give a particular voice to whatever he made. With those models, Puryear had in place the elements of his lifelong working practice. He would put together things that...
...army of firefighters and other personnel who waded into the flames and slowly beat them back. There is Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, adept at both crisis management and showmanship, who moved fast, stayed visible and received a general's welcome after the crisis as he tossed the coin to begin the San Diego Chargers game at a spotless Qualcomm Stadium, which only days earlier had been home to thousands of evacuees...
...glimpses into his unique career as a film composer at a film music lecture and a workshop for composers. Because music scoring is the last production process, it presents particular challenges, he explained at Saturday’s lecture. “Great [composers] are utterly stunned where to begin...a blank canvas with a deadline,” Kraft said. As the final artists to work on the film, composers are tasked with the job of completing the scenes and bringing everything together. “People always assume they know what movie music is all about...
Last year at this time, students were rushing to the post office to send in their application to Harvard. No longer. Though many other undergraduate institutions are gearing up to accept a large portion of their 2012 class, Harvard admissions officers will wait until January to begin vetting applicants. Though few colleges have followed Harvard’s example so far, we still hope that will change as admissions officers across the country come to realize how big of a boon the elimination of early admissions policies is to high school students and universities alike. When Harvard decided last September...