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Precariousness is an essential element in the life of the entrepreneur, a French word now more associated with the much despised Anglo-Saxon "liberalism" and its merciless dog-eat-dog capitalism. But these days the best examples of the entrepreneurial spirit are hardly Anglo-Saxon: China, India, Korea, Chile, all rising and growing, even as France and much of Europe decline...
...often ignored by the general public. The protests force the country to acknowledge that the “immigration issue” has a human face. By demanding recognition, the students in the streets have made themselves a part of the story. They have added a new element to political decision-making.Whether these protests will succeed in the short-term, I cannot say. But the next time politicians start to brag about how tough they’ve been on the illegals, I sincerely hope they think harder about the thousands of young people marching in the streets, trying to protect...
...student’s family or other background circumstances may help the FDO and other advisors in their efforts to help the student,” they write. “Such communication is at the heart of what we do here and is an important element of increasing the likelihood that students will thrive at Harvard...
Every year we like to lift our eyes from the toil of the present and peer further ahead at the trends on the horizon. Our exploration this time raised a lively debate on the merits of digital moviemaking, as well as keen observations that underscored the human element of our technology-driven world time's article on George Lucas and the new digital age in moviemaking was especially poignant for me [March 20]. My father worked as a technician at Technicolor for more than 30 years and helped with the production of several Disney animated movies. Now my daughter...
...Shenyang, when an architecture school moved to the suburbs, Yu designed its campus to incorporate the rice paddies of the farms it had displaced. The rice became both a decorative element and a kind of literal food for thought?a reminder that landscaping needn't be expensive and that even agriculture can look modern. In Taizhou, Yu un-channeled a local river, removing cement barriers and letting it flood into a wetland through which he snaked bicycle paths, docks and terraces. In Zhongshan, Yu's shipyard park, which like the campus was honored by the American Society of Landscape Architects...