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Rubin Sheds One Board Post But Vows to Keep Another (August 29, 2006) Harvard Corporation member Robert E. Rubin ’60 has resigned from the board. No, not that board. In fact, although Rubin stepped down from Ford Motor Company’s board last Thursday, he says he has no plans to leave Harvard’s executive board any time soon...
...obsessed with perfection to the point that it's nearly an illness.' --Tom Ford on being a perfectionist...
...elements that made the 1992 “Director’s Cut” a flawless film still exist. The plot remains the same: Rick Deckard (Ford) is an exhausted cop in the year 2019, where anyone with wealth or common sense has gone “off-world.” A corporation has developed genetically-engineered quasi-robots called “replicants” for work off-world, and they look, think, and feel exactly like humans—“more human than human,” according to the company?...
...Given how much ink has been spilled over the movie in the 25 years since its initial release (including two books of academic essays, a thick tome about the war between Scott, Ford, and Warner Bros., and a monograph from the British Film Institute), it seems all too obvious to point out that “Blade Runner” is one of the most visually astonishing films of all time...
...Gergen, the Center for Public Leadership’s director, said he found the results disturbing. “There’s something more profound here than unhappiness with the president and the war in Iraq,” said Gergen, a former advisor to the Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton administrations. “It speaks to a generalized anxiety among Americans as they face a growing agenda of problems and very little progress in overcoming them.” The public disillusionment is part of a historic trajectory that began in the 1970s, with high-profile political...