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Target has no stores in those countries, so Leonhardt couldn't rely on the hip, friendly Target brand to draw recruits--a far cry from the U.S., where the retailer is a household name and sought-after employer. "We're competing against IBM and Dell and brands that are already huge out here," he says. "Everyone wants to show their families they work for a big name." Recruiting at top Chinese universities, Leonhardt would show the swoosh and the bitten apple, logos the students readily recognize as Nike's and Apple's. "But when I showed them the red bull...
...years ago, he was treated as a forerunner not only of the Impressionists but also of the Abstract Expressionists and color-field painters, of Mark Rothko and his pulsing fogs or Morris Louis and his washes of diluted pigment. But in recent years, scholars have been at pains to draw Turner back into the context of his times, to emphasize that he was eager to paint history and contemporary events and to look to the past as much as the future...
...gentry were eager to be commemorated in the full regalia of the ruling classes. The elderly Reynolds was still president of the Royal Academy when the 14-year-old Turner was admitted to the Academy's school. But Turner would have been a disaster as a portraitist. He could draw as well as the best of them. In watercolor he could produce something like molecular detail, notwithstanding that one of his typical techniques was to soak the entire sheet in water, rub in raw pigment, blot it with rags and sponges and then painstakingly work up finer detail within...
...same texts and debating the same questions makes for a shared intellectual experience, which adds to the learning and also the fun.2.FM: Do you think that making your class available to students through the Extension School has the effect of devaluing it? Part of Harvard’s draw is the privilege to study with Skip Gates and Stephen Greenblatt and Michael Sandel—by offering the experience to anyone who signs up, students might feel slightly duped, despite it having no direct effect on them?MJS: I don’t think you should worry that giving others...
...Brown is set to meet U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Downing Street sources insist that Washington is in agreement with the rapid draw down, but some U.S. critics have questioned Britain's record in Iraq. General Jack Keane, a Pentagon envoy to Iraq, told the BBC in August that "the Brits have never had enough troops to truly protect the population...