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Fortunately for CAA, the post-Ovitz era has seen its rivals in a state of flux too. Just two weeks ago, the 10% world was abuzz when a self-promoting, self-styled "agent warrior" named Gavin Polone was fired by the United Talent Agency after accusations of "inappropriate" behavior toward a female colleague, then given a seven-figure settlement and an apology by his superiors. She, in turn, took her own revenge: she quit and went over...
...April 15 means taxes, and next Thursday is Cindy's birthday), and all of us think in terms of spring cleaning or fall fashions. But seasons induct us into a world of divisions that are never hard and fast (soft and slow, rather); they offer lessons about constancy and flux (The Winter's Tale is an affirmation of spring), and show us that there are some things--for all our fears of global warning and a nuclear winter--we cannot much affect. Seasons teach us about transitions, for winter elides into spring as gently as remorse into regret, or adolescence...
This weekend there will be yet another set of people roaming curiously through the great Harvard Yard. They won't be part of the normal flux of 500-people-per-group tourists whose pictures we have all walked through while they invent new posing positions with the John Harvard statue. Neither will they be part of the teenie-bopper Harvard Model Congress crowd whose biggest thrill is chilling at the T-stop. No, this weekend is Junior Parents Weekend. Hundreds of curious, concerned, but also proud parents have travelled long distances to take a picture with John Harvard, grab...
...Cincinnati--all cities whose professional football teams are threatening to leave. It's the same question once asked by fans in Los Angeles, Baltimore, St. Louis, Oakland and New York--all cities whose teams did abandon them in the 1980s and '90s. No Fixed Location? No Fan Loyalty? National Flux League...
Here, then, are highlights from the tale that scientists are piecing together of a unique and dynamic time in the history of the earth, when continents were rifting apart, genetic programs were in flux, and tiny organisms in vast oceans dreamed of growing large...