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...Steichen Lives in Photography, which opened this week at Paris' Jeu de Paume, begins with a giant 5 m by 4 m shot of Manhattan's George Washington bridge. Feel free to make your own analogies. After all, Steichen (1879-1973) bridged the transition from photography's early soft-focus, pictorialist style to crisp modernism. He also linked the art world between New York and Paris, and made his own life a bridge from artist to critic to commercial photographer to museum curator. He has been hailed as the greatest photographer of the 20th century, and the Jeu de Paume...
...nice place for students to go and at least get acknowledged in some way for spending a great deal of time in the dramatic arts” said Scanlan, who is also a professor of the practice of theatre. The new secondary fields come as administrators focus new attention on the arts. University President Drew G. Faust has pledged to reexamine the place of the arts at Harvard. According to Humanities Center Director Homi K. Bhabha, overtures have been made to two leading professors of drama to teach at Harvard, though he declined to name them. Former Faculty of Arts...
Cookies for baby food. CEO Franck Riboud says "the new Danone" will be "the most beautiful food platform you can imagine." Danone's cookie divestiture completed a transformation that has given the former conglomerate a clear focus. To get there, the company has undergone a radical change. In 1996 Danone was selling beer, glass, frozen food, pasta sauces, candies, Italian cheese, cookies, dairy products and water. Riboud, who took over the business from his famous industrialist father Antoine that year (the family controls less than 0.5% of the shares), decided in 1997 to refocus the company, which began its conglomerate...
...betting that demand for healthy food is going to outpace consumers' desire for another chocolate-chip cookie. "We were more and more convinced that due to health issues, long-term-speaking, cookies were going to be in trouble," says Sacchi. He cites increasing health awareness, increasing government regulation, increasing focus on disease prevention, the changing needs of aging populations, particularly in Western Europe, which accounts for 40% of Danone's sales, and the spread of diet-related health problems as factors. "In some countries," says Sacchi, "obesity will be the new tobacco." That could well be the case...
...reform. Nevertheless, I dissent from the Crimson Staff in their endorsement of monetary incentives for New York City schools that serve communities with a high proportion of low-income Latino or black students. Doubtless, many of the students from such disadvantaged backgrounds need help to stay in school and focus on their studies, which are eventually what will give them a chance at better circumstances. But paying the way forward will not pave the way forward...