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Beyond Power is part ideological tract, part history of the world according to feminism. In a brisk romp through the ages, readers learn that an 18th century woman playwright, Olympe de Gouges, came down firmly on both sides of the French Revolution, and that Crystal Eastman founded the American Civil Liberties Union but got no credit for it. No male abuse of females goes unchronicled, and to give the author her due, the long litany, from foot binding to burning for witchcraft, has a sobering effect. French, an academic who has taught English at Harvard, Hofstra and Holy Cross, seems...
...like change," says Eastman Kodak CEO Daniel Carp. "I'm one of those people that has to have change." Good thing, because Kodak has had plenty of it. Carp is now well into the monumental task of dragging the iconic American company that invented consumer photography more than a century ago into the fast-moving, low-margin world of the digital era. He has little choice. As digital cameras have grown in popularity, Kodak's profitable film business has gone into free fall. Not the first Kodak CEO to try to refocus the company on the digital future, Carp...
...Risk is certainly not flawless. Early on, the reader is privy to more details of the terrorist plot than Liz, and things move slowly until she catches up. Liz also has a convenient habit of asking herself bushels of expository questions ("What business could Eastman have been doing with Germans and Arabs and Pakistanis? Who had been killed? And most vitally of all, was there a terror connection?"). But these are quibbles. In a thriller, plot is all and once it gets going, At Risk is never less than compelling. The book was vetted--as was Rimington's first...
Take advantage of this rare opportunity to hear Emmy-winning pianist and Eastman School of Music graduate Laurence Rosenthal as he plays music by Composers Gurdjieff and Hartmann. Hartmann himself is personally interested in the composers’ works and even edited the first publication of Gurdjieff / de Hartmann music. His personal passion for the work is bound to shine through his playing. Tickets $10-20. 4 p.m. Paine Hall...
...Picture New York-based Eastman Kodak announced plans to ax up to 15,000 jobs - more than one-fifth of its global work force - as part of its painful shift from traditional film to digital photography...