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...human condition, but it was not always so. For the most part, cultural development has moved more slowly than glaciers, imperceptible to those who participated in it. As the historical philosopher Ronald Wright observed, for 99.5% of mankind's existence "the human world that individuals entered at birth was the same as the one they left at death." Nothing ever changed, for generation upon generation...
...director, and Dick Bresciani, the cherished media-relations chief. There were, presumably, some pretty bright and pretty successful people in this ragtag, slightly sodden assemblage. But all they were at the moment was Red Sox fans, and-excepting a Little League single by a son or daughter, or the birth of a grandchild-this was about as happy as they could be in this life...
...better part of two months trying to write a feature film screenplay roughly 120 pages in length. However, the process is far more difficult than I’d ever imagined. Being an avid moviegoer and seeing the garbage that comes onto the screen—”Birth,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” “War of the Worlds,” for example—I had thought that I, being a bright, creative person, would have no trouble fashioning a story that would enchant audiences...
...they are not connected to any revenue-generating part of the business. Kirshbaum wonders if they will be criticized as unresponsive if they take off one afternoon. She admires the freedom the employees in the ROWE program seem to enjoy. She changed to a four-day schedule after the birth of her second child last year and struggles every day with the push of work and the pull of family. Still, she is not convinced that ROWE will work for her. She already checks e-mail and voice mail on her "day off." Will ROWE push even more work into...
...real Rowling's hair is sort of gold, although at the moment it has about an inch of dark roots. Which is understandable, since in the past six months she has given birth to her third child--daughter Mackenzie--and completed the sixth book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which was released promptly at midnight on Friday. At 39, Rowling is a tall handsome woman with a long face, a slightly crooked nose and interestingly hooded eyes. Sitting at a conference table in a bungalow adjoining her stately Edinburgh home (neither her only...