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...Schwitter’s definition of Merz, which “wants freedom from all fetters in order to shape things artistically.” All things considered, however, it seems there was a reason why Kurt Schwitter was remembered for his art, while his stories were, as the dust jacket says, “little known in any language” before now.—Staff writer April B. Wang can be reached at abwang@fas.harvard.edu...
...week by Stephen Bosworth, President Obama's special envoy for North Korea - has been to re-energize the so-called six-party talks that focus on North Korean denuclearization, and even to engage the North directly. Bosworth was quoted as saying that will still be the case "after the dust from the missiles settles...
...Coming Car Boom Once the dust settles, the new GM, or whatever replaces it, is likely to see a marketplace of consumers finally ready to spend money on new cars. GM's executives aren't entirely off base in thinking that pent-up demand is building, because it is. "Assuming general economic recovery, in the developed markets we will see maybe 95% of what it had been," says John Paul MacDuffie, an associate professor of management and co-director of the International Motor Vehicle Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. U.S. auto and light-truck sales...
...mind's eye of zoologists. In this week's cover story for our annual Environment issue, Bryan Walsh writes that there have been five great waves of extinction in the planet's history--the most recent being 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs bit the dust. Now, he suggests, we may be entering the sixth. Some 1 in 4 mammals are under threat, and conservationists estimate that the pace of extinction is up to 1,000 times as great as it was before humans walked the earth. The great difference this time is that the cause is man-made...
...Girl Talk is reclaiming that virile innocence he lost at Harvard back in November, sweeping the dust from that musical massacre off of his electronic toys, and taking them all to Yale for Spring Fling. And oh, the alternative hip hop group N*E*R*D ("No-one Ever Really Dies." Um, yeah) is also coming. Any group that can sing the line "Her ass is a spaceship I want to ride" with a straight face must be a good...