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MEXICO: SPLENDORS OF THIRTY CENTURIES, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. This monumental show bites off more than it -- or you -- can chew. But it makes you want to go to Mexico, to know this vast, vivid, fierce visual culture better. Through...
...this show bites off more than it -- or you -- can chew. But it makes you want to go to Mexico, to know this culture better, and on its own terms. As cultural diplomacy, it is a vivid success...
...that Bush spends so much time greeting luminaries and other visitors that he has little time to mull over the great problems of the day. Here the White House erred badly by overdirecting: rather than making it possible for Brokaw and his crews to tape what Bush does best -- chew the fat with advisers for hours on end -- the White House allowed the cameras to record only the first three or four minutes of each meeting. These brief segments produced conversations that seemed stilted and staged...
...maximize shareholder value," but few of them blew the trumpets like Edelman. In 1987 he taught a business course at Columbia University that he aptly dubbed "The Art of War." Edelman offered $100,000 to any student who could find a mismanaged company for the professor to chew up. Columbia nixed the offer, but Edelman's image as a buccaneer flourished. That same year he served as a role model for the fiendishly greedy Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. "I hunched in my seat as I watched that movie," says Edelman. "I've never committed any crimes...
Students of the American character will find plenty to chew on here, since the intrusive survey asks its recipients how old they were when they first made love (51% were under 18); whether they look behind the shower curtain or door when using someone else's bathroom (7% do); whether, if they found a diamond ring, they would attempt to locate the owner (79% would); and whether they eat corn on the cob side to side or in circles (for those who can't wait to find out, fully 80% eat it in circles...