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...behavior for clues to her mysterious malady. As a child, Clara writes, Jessy sometimes seemed to neither see nor hear--she gazed through people as through glass--yet her visual perception was so acute that she could assemble puzzles picture-side-down, and her ears detected the faintest buzz, hum or click of a household appliance. Though she did not acquire a usable vocabulary until she was five, a few years later she effortlessly mastered arcane mathematical concepts and Morse code. Indeed, her facility with patterns and order led her to create--and be ruled by--her own obsessive systems...
...verdicts rolled in: Japan's economic growth was the faintest of heartbeats; it was shackled by deflation, record unemployment and self-feeding consumer recalcitrance; its banks were on the verge of bankruptcy and its government was drowning in debt. With the U.S. in a slowdown of its own, Japan's exports couldn't keep it hanging on, and Mori's latest missteps seemed to prove that the country's deeply sclerotic government had neither the will nor the agility to do what needed to be done...
Rubalcava said he hopes the group will allow students with entrepreneurial ideas at any stage, even "the faintest inkling of an idea," to obtain help writing business plans, researching their competition and building their business team. The group will also keep a database of Harvard students who are interested in joining a business and have skills like programming and finance...
Koetsu's sources reached back hundreds of years, and yet his way of writing "fat and thin" characters, some bold and emphatic and others trailing to the faintest visual whisper, was peculiarly his own (at least among Japanese calligraphers) and difficult to emulate. His ability to work with space through writing struck his admirers as a marvel. Ernest Fenollosa, the great Boston connoisseur of Japanese art who did the most to introduce Koetsu to a Western audience at the end of the 19th century, went into raptures about it: "Such a unique feeling for spacing, placing and spotting has never...
...Koetsu's sources reached back hundreds of years, and yet his way of writing "fat and thin" characters, some bold and emphatic and others trailing to the faintest visual whisper, was peculiarly his own (at least among Japanese calligraphers) and difficult to emulate. His ability to work with space through writing struck his admirers as a marvel. Ernest Fenollosa, the great Boston connoisseur of Japanese art who did the most to introduce Koetsu to a Western audience at the end of the 19th century, went into raptures about it: "Such a unique feeling for spacing, placing and spotting has never...