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...does one govern a family’—or, by extension, a university? And his answer was this, ‘You govern a family’—or a university—’as if you would cook a small fish. That is, very gently indeed,’” Kirby said, raising a few eyebrows in the audience.“Here, I fear, I must break with Confucius,” the dean continued. “Sometimes we need to turn up the heat. Sometimes we need...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers had visited his alma mater Friday, he might have picked up some pointers from the annual Charm School at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The institution may be famous for multiplying stem cells and refining fish censors, but when it comes to charm, MIT has some answers too: bowties are a “simple topology problem” and networking is really “social calculus...
...Design, where he had brushed up against Pop, Minimalism, Post-Minimalism and Conceptualism. One big influence--although he saw their work only in photographs--was New York City artists who played with the idea of consumer culture in the 1980s--think of Jeff Koons suspending those basketballs in fish tanks like miraculous relics, or Haim Steinbach, who simply placed consumer goods on nicely laminated wooden shelves, sleek altars for sacred merchandise. Five years after he finished school, Jungen had his first show. One year later, he made the first Prototype...
...named Rio da Dvida, the River of Doubt, an unmapped tributary of the Amazon. Millard charts the trip Roosevelt called his "last chance to be a boy," which was a calamity. The travelers were beset by piranhas; starvation; rapids; malaria; mutiny; Indians with poison-tipped arrows; and tiny Amazonian fish that attack the, um, loins. In the dark of the jungle, delirious with fever, threatening suicide, the indomitable ex-President transforms into an existential hero straight out of Joseph Conrad...
...impish Korean-born avant-gardist deemed the inventor of video art who in the 1960s won acclaim with works that simultaneously celebrated and spoofed the fledgling notion of media overload; of natural causes; in Miami. Inspired by iconoclast composer John Cage, he created such renowned installations as Video Fish, an array of 52 live monitors, each obscured by fish-filled aquariums...