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Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention of Air, and a co-founder of the local-news website outside.in...
...face of extreme financial pressure, praising what they view as her transparent and cautious approach in identifying University priorities.“She’s very forthright, unadorned, and not one to gild the lily,” says Peter J. Solomon ’60, the founder of the New York-based Peter J. Solomon investment bank who has met with Faust on several occasions.CHANGING TACKAs the value of the endowment plummeted, donors have described Faust’s approach as direct and up-front in requesting their financial support to bolster the University’s cash...
...It’s a demeanor reflected in Smith’s former life as co-founder of the software company Liquid Machines, where co-founder Arny Epstein says Smith approached challenges in a measured, methodical way. At the last Faculty meeting, Smith compared the problem of closing the FAS deficit to “what I see when I’m designing an engineering problem...
...Yang Shan Fang, tel: (886-2) 2217 7875, is far more than a dining venue. "I really don't possess the techniques that take Chinese chefs a decade to learn - that's why most everything I serve is steamed or dipped, which makes it healthy," claims chef and founder Lin Ping-hui. A former property developer, Lin these days adheres to what he terms the ancient Chinese lifestyle of "humility and cultivating beauty from within." Amid the forests of Yangmingshan National Park above Taipei, in three sparsely furnished pavilions (in which Lin, sporting traditional tunics, meditates every morning with...
Europeans often grumble that the European Union is run by anonymous apparatchiks. Surely they're not referring to Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, grandson of Italy's last King, who is campaigning for this week's European Parliament elections. Or to Rickard Falkvinge, the founder of Sweden's Pirate Party, whose campaign rallying cry is for free file-sharing over the Internet. Or to Elena Basescu, a.k.a. Romania's Paris Hilton - the flashy It girl, who happens to be the daughter of the Romanian President, also wants to become...