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...previews, when ticket sales are likely to be light. Few plays, though, are able to generate that level of sales. The recent hit God of Carnage has had a handful of weeks when box-office sales topped $1 million. But that play, unlike Enron, had a number of big-name stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Enron Play on Broadway? | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

...just that some of his self-proclaimed disciples have given us a terribly incomplete picture of what he believed. The man himself used the phrase invisible hand only three times: once in the famous passage from The Wealth of Nations that everybody cites; once in his other big book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments; and once in a posthumously published history of astronomy (in which he was talking about "the invisible hand of Jupiter" - the god, not the planet). For Smith, the invisible hand was but one of an array of interesting social and economic forces worth thinking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Would Adam Smith Say? | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

...have slowed down on any further changes until we have had the opportunity to hire the new CIO so that they can be involved in the big picture from the get-go,” Selsby wrote in an e-mailed statement. In the meantime, FAS IT has begun to search for an interim Technical Manager, he added...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: IT Offices To Consolidate | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

...quite different from most of the smaller club events that are located in common rooms or dining halls. The latter events, small-scale and exclusive by their nature, do little to foster school spirit. Yardfest has a proven ability to excite the student body and draw out a big audience: Around 7,100 students came out for Sara Bareilles and Ratatat last year, and about 7,000 showed up in 2008 for Wu-Tang Clan and Gavin DeGraw. With mainstream hip-hop artist Kid Cudi, known best for his hit song...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Stepping out into the Yard | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

...game he plays extraordinarily well. Breitbart has become the Web's most combative conservative impresario - part new-media mogul, part Barnumesque scamp. Last fall, he launched Big Government, the flagship of his wickedly right-of-center sites, which also include Big Hollywood, Big Journalism - which described the House's March 21 passage of the health care reform bill as a "socialist putsch" - and the news aggregators Breitbart.com and Breitbart.tv. On its first day of business, Big Government produced a scoop: undercover filmmakers James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles - the would-be Borats of the right - had shot videos that appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Breitbart: The Web's New Right-Wing Impresario | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

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