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...earliest days of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe, Americans saw, and certainly heard, the bold and blunt style that had made New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin a popular and effective leader in the Crescent City. Nagin's angry calls to "get off your asses" may have shamed the federal government into action, but many of his broadcasts since then-most notably, his controversial decision to let 180,000 residents and business owners back into New Orleans this week, before the approaching Hurricane Rita led him to reconsider-haven't been as well received. His tall, movie star-handsome swagger seems rattled...
...Cernuschi loved ancient bronzes-decorative, ceremonial and technologically sophisticated artifacts from China's earliest history. Among his acquisitions in the museum's extensive bronze collection is an enormous basin from the 6th century B.C., the largest of its kind outside China. But the true bronze masterpiece is a work older by some 600 years, the so-called Tigress you (wine vessel), which the museum bought after its patron's death. The vase, from the Shang dynasty (roughly 1550 to 1050 B.C.), was used for ancestor worship, and is shaped like an open-jawed feline, with a child either resting...
...neither Cernuschi the man nor Cernuschi the museum intended to present an exhaustive collection of Asian art. Instead, in a quiet residential quarter of Paris, the museum offers, as curator Gilles Bèguin eloquently puts it, an "aesthetic promenade," a kind of random walk through the earliest periods of Chinese art. And that is exactly what makes the Musèe Cernuschi unique among museums of Asia. Just what Enrico, or rather Henri, would have wanted...
...Vodka, one of the earliest companies to grasp podcasting's promotional value, recently launched a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign to reach trendsetting consumers. Vox-supported podcasts air on Infinity Broadcasting's KYOU Radio, the first all-podcasting station in San Francisco. Each week it features 25 regularly scheduled podcasts, some with commercial sponsors. Station manager Stephen Page has a "podbank" filled with more than 3,200 programs--all created by listeners, like Worldbeat Radio from Paris, a blues show from Iowa, and Guy Bauer, a 30-minute variety show. About 15 new podcasts arrive daily, he says. Launched...
...MANY PEOPLE ASSUME YOU MUST BE INCREDIBLY TOUGH TO WORK FOR. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? Somehow I have managed to build a very fine company with a very fine work force filled with people who are still there from the earliest days. Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding, and those are the characteristics you'll see on The Apprentice. If you want to see a tyrannical Martha, you'll have to watch Cybill Shepherd. [Shepherd has played Stewart in two TV movies...