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While many students struggled through two years at HBS, George W. Bush exuded confidence—his sectionmates in the Class of 1975 remember his tobacco-chewing habit, his “sloppy” style of dressing and his smooth charm. “Not too many people are that confident,” Kurz says of his one-time classmate...
DIED. JACQUES DERRIDA, 74, French philosopher and intellectual demigod; of pancreatic cancer; in Paris. Born into a Jewish family in Algeria, he earned his reputation with a series of philosophical works that combined daunting academic virtuosity with an enlightened playfulness. A man of immense charm, he was the godfather of deconstruction, a critical approach that emphasizes ambiguity, self-reference and multiple, shifting meanings and that unravels texts by teasing out the latent contradictions in them. Although his writings are notoriously elusive, their influence on literary criticism--and the culture at large--has been immeasurable...
Case in point is their cover of Johnny and June Carter Cash’s “Jackson.” The original duet was no lyrical masterpiece but instead drew its charm from the interplay of the couple. Here it is effectively gutted by their removal of the male voice, stripping the tune of its original charisma and replacing it with vocalist Sally Ellyson’s somnambulant, though urbane, croon. Here and elsewhere on the album, her voice lacks any of the smoke or hue that lends distinction to good country singing. As a result, the album...
...anyone catches you." DIED. JACQUES DERRIDA, 74, French philosopher and intellectual demigod; in Paris. Born into a Jewish family in Algeria, he earned his reputation in the 1960s and '70s with a series of philosophical works that combined daunting academic virtuosity with an enlightened playfulness. A man of immense charm, he was the godfather of deconstruction, a critical approach that emphasizes ambiguity; self-reference and multiple, shifting meanings; and unravels texts by teasing out the latent contradictions in them. Although his writings are notoriously elusive, their influence on literary criticism, and the culture at large, was immeasurable. DIED. GORDON COOPER...
...Kandy, is one of them. "I do not like it full," says owner Helga da Silva Blow Perera, "as it spoils the atmosphere." For this reason, the hotel takes pains to never rent out all 40 rooms at once. Such whimsical attitudes are part of the place's charm. In its day, Helga's Folly has hosted celebrities such as William Holden, David Lean, Sir Laurence Olivier and Mohandas Gandhi. More recent guests include fashion designer Zandra Rhodes and Kelly Jones of rock group the Stereophonics, who wrote British chart-topper Madame Helga in tribute to his hostess...