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There's a proud White House tradition of cashing in - er, signing lucrative book deals - on the way out the door. That includes not only Presidents but also first ladies, secretaries of state, speechwriters and so on, all the way down to the White House chefs. But the common wisdom in Manhattan publishing circles was that George W. Bush would have to cool his heels for a while before he penned his memoir. The thinking: Bush's low approval ratings might render any presidential tell-all a toxic asset for his publisher...
When Anneika M. Verghese ’12 opened her door at 9 a.m. yesterday, she said she was more confused than surprised. The loud revelry of Leverett and Mather House undergraduates welcoming new residents on the floor below had already prepared her and her blockmates for what to expect...
Instead, upon opening their door, they found a giant elephant mascot sitting in the Wigglesworth entryway...
...more frugal world, it's all about getting more bang for the buck. Consider Puaramita Acharji, a West Bengali woman who joined Unilever's Shakti program several years ago and now earns about $14 a month selling items in her village door-to-door. Small as that sum might be, Acharji says it has changed her life. Instead of being dependent on her husband, Acharji says, she now commands respect in the village. "It is enough to stand on my own two feet," she says. Increasingly, CSR programs will have to do the same...
...fruits of the regime. Instead, he contrived melancholy parables about the psychological predicaments of life within a brutal and brutalizing system. You sense he's a man who would be happy to retreat into his own world if only the larger world weren't always drumming just outside his door. What James Joyce has Stephen Dedalus say in Ulysses--"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake"--could be Kentridge's working motto...