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What happened next explains why the men who survive the world's hardest job share some things no one else can understand. With some time to kill, Bush got happily lost in the Clinton galleries until a tourist approached him near one exhibit and said, "Hey, you look a lot like George Bush." Replied 41: "I am George Bush." Word spread quickly, and as Bush made his way back down a corridor, a group of schoolchildren broke into spontaneous applause. The kids were paying their respects to one President as he was paying his respects to another...
...most important feature of technology: that it’s functional. Unlike, say, a giraffe, what’s interesting about the facebook isn’t what it looks like or eats; it’s what you can do with it. Some naming schemes for technologies exhibit this in very pure form: they’ve come from verbs, as with the venerable toaster. The rest of the time, though, smart people invent things and give them names. For a while we’re content to talk about them as objects, but sooner or later we realize...
...Minister, but also hundreds of military men who personally committed atrocities, ordered them to take place, or refrained from stopping them. At the museum next door, memorabilia from kamikaze pilots, the Burma death railway and other examples of Japan's wartime history are displayed in unequivocally celebratory style. An exhibit on the "Nanking Incident" of 1937 does not mention the tens of thousands (and perhaps hundreds of thousands) of Chinese citizens the Japanese military slaughtered there in 1937 and 1938. Instead, it says, "The Chinese were soundly defeated, suffering heavy casualties. Inside the city, residents were once again able...
...commonplace co-existed inside his head: he never went nearer a tropical forest than Paris' Botanic Gardens, and for much of his life combined painting with the humdrum work of a tax collector. "Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris," at Tate Modern until Feb. 5, is the first major exhibit of his work in London for nearly 80 years. It brings together paintings from Europe, Japan and the U.S., and showcases his imagined foreign scenes and modest, less well-known landscapes. A wealth of documentary material illuminates the way he synthesized his jungles of the mind. The show will travel...
...exhibit shows a changing landscape at the school. With a student body that is 52 percent female and a faculty that is 40 percent female, the gender composition of HDS is vastly different than in 1955 when only eight females matriculated...