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...following excerpt, Suskind describes the government's reaction to information about a different WMD threat: hydrogen cyanide gas. As in the rest of the book, he illuminates the constant interplay and occasional tension between the "invisibles," the men and women in the intelligence and uniformed services actually fighting the war on terrorism, and the "notables," high-level officials who "tell us that everything will be fine, or that we should be very afraid, or both." Suskind, who won the Pulitzer Prize as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, wrote the 2004 best seller The Price of Loyalty, an inside...
...walled structure with a freestanding glass wall situated a few meters in front of it. The effect is to create multiple veils of transparency in which the building seems to dematerialize. With the Musée du Quai Branly, Nouvel again shows that his buildings are in deliberately complex interplay not just with their surroundings, but with their function. Not simple, but sublime; you might call them buildings for adults...
...REALLY?)“Social life is... a big part of the MBA program,” says Edmund J. Kim. Kim is president of HBS section E, one of ten 90-person subdivisions of the business school student body. As a student leader, he knows all about the interplay between social life and academic life. HBS students frequent pricey Harvard Square haunts like Daedalus, Grafton Street, and Noir. But in addition to the bar-hopping, the members of section E regularly host other events like dinner parties and wine tastings. The well-planned and often-lavish events demonstrate...
Students at the event appeared to find it thought-provoking. Alex R.S. Sloane ’09 said that “it made me think about the interplay of Chinese-US relations in a whole new way.” And Joshua G. Allen ’09 added, “It made me wonder what China’s goal is in projecting soft power...
This is not to say that Paglia’s essays don’t contain important and novel insights. She notes the subtle interplay of themes and images between different poems, and seamlessly integrates historical context and contemporary allusion. Her discussion of the fallen tyrant in Shelley’s “Ozymandias,” for instance, touches on the resonance of the poem in post-Napoleonic Europe, as well as noting that “modern readers may find the clarity of conception and execution of ‘Ozymandias’ especially compelling because Shelley?...