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There aren't many clubs harder to join than the G-8. You have to be at the top of the global heap: one of the very richest industrialized countries, potent enough to help steer the world's economy. And you're supposed to be a functioning democracy too. So when Vladimir Putin opens this year's G-8 summit next weekend at the sumptuous Palace of Congresses overlooking the sea 15 km from St. Petersburg, the famously stone-faced Russian President can be forgiven a brief flicker of a smile. The former kgb officer in East Germany will...
...danger of extinction has vanished. Blair's government has limited itself to a bill that will require private schools to publish the social benefits they generate to justify their charitable tax-exemption status. Eton has only a handful of true competitors at the top of the private-school heap, plenty of money and applicants, and it has honed its procedures to identify the smartest boys. But it is uniquely in the public eye - Princes William and Harry didn't go to Beaufort Community School - so the continuing criticisms of Eton's role in perpetuating a stratified society have an impact...
...Mega-concert promoters have not always been so sanguine. Just a few summers ago, the American rock festival seemed destined for the trash heap of music history. As recently as 2004, Lollapalooza, the granddaddy of traveling rock happenings, was struggling to stay afloat as sagging ticket sales and a general decline in live concert attendance took its toll. But the following year, Lollapalooza retooled itself from a touring entity into a two-day event based in Chicago's Grant Park. More than 60,000 people showed up to see a slate of some 60 bands that included the Pixies...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles, and the nine members of the Presidential Search Committee. Their task, above all, is to ensure that Harvard does not rest on its laurels—it cannot if it hopes to remain at the top of the heap; this remains as true today as it was when University President Lawrence H. Summers was selected five years ago.Bok and Knowles have the unique opportunity to reprise their past roles and in many ways are the perfect fits for their respective jobs. Each has attained enough gravitas to command...
...Mike Nisbet at Rheem Manufacturing in Montgomery, Ala., is to keep 500 PCs and laptops virus-free and humming. Last year he was haunted by another worry: averting an avalanche. The obsolete or trashed equipment that he and his staff routinely piled in a storage room was in a heap 6 ft. high and growing. "I was afraid someone might get hurt," he says...