Word: enigmas
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This place is Byzantine. It was my job as ambassador to the Nation of Neil to understand how power is brokered around here, and I can’t say I ever got a grip on it. The president is an enigma and the best we seem to be able to do is identify when he’s doing his job wrong, failing to make a splash, to catch our eyes, take stands and learn our names. I have a friend who collects the signatures of Harvard Presidents. His archive includes James B. Conant ’14 (also...
...PROOF David Auburn's intriguing mix of memory play and math lesson concerns a professor's daughter who may or may not have solved a famous math enigma. Of the year's two brainy science plays (the other: "Copenhagen"), this is the one that touches the heart...
...Consumers have always been an enigma. All the mathematical models in the world have never been able to predict consumer behavior, and what we've seen from the confidence numbers is that even the consumers themselves aren't great predictors of what they're going to do with their wallets. Right now, it looks like they could be pulling us through again...
...enduring appeal of Johannes Vermeer - a new exhibition of his paintings has just proved a runaway success at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and transfers to London's National Gallery this summer - is based on an enigma. The master of precision, mood and detail, Vermeer nevertheless avoided all that is discordant and jarring - what Anthony Bailey, in his engrossing new book 'A View of Delft' (Chatto & Windus; 224 pages), terms "the messiness of life...
...challenge for any analysis of the Microsoft antitrust saga is to resolve its central enigma: How could the same people who'd been so brilliant in the lab and the boardroom--building the world's most valuable corporation in a mere generation--have been so wrongheaded in the courtroom? Auletta has a provocative answer: what the Jesuits call holy effrontery. He argues that Bill Gates and his disciples are so convinced of the rightness of their cause that they can't even conceive that they might be wrong--or that any fairminded person could think...