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...January 1942 report -- part propaganda, part journalism -- the Soviet novelist Ilya Ehrenburg wrote of the winter battle: "The road is still long. From here to the extreme capes of Europe, to Finisterre, 'the end of the earth,' stretches the Kingdom of Death. It is a difficult road. But the Red Army continues its relentless march across the snow." By the time the spring thaw slowed the Russian counterattack, the Germans had been hurled entirely out of Moscow province. In the spring of 1942 they would still be close enough to threaten, but by then they had lost the battle...
Without him, however, there can be no doubt that his far-flung corporate kingdom will never be the same. Maxwell's properties, which include Macmillan Publishers and the London-based Daily Mirror as well as printing plants, the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv and several professional soccer teams, are joined by a complex web of interlocking connections, all masterminded by Maxwell and Maxwell alone. "You've lost the force majeure, the single persona that held it all together," says John Reidy, a New York City media analyst at Smith Barney...
After all, doing deals on Wall Street is a far cry from riding Space Mountain in the Magic Kingdom. Yet while the business and operational sides of any company are obviously different, the philosophy that underlies them at the Walt Disney Company is not. Disney's commitment to creativity has not only meant great films and memorable vacations for millions, but also a legacy of financial success...
Religion in the Early Tibetan Kingdom--with Hugh Richardson, honorary fellow at the British Academy. At 2 p.m. in room 18 in the Harvard Yenching Institute at 2 Divinity...
...have a much better track record than the pessimists. But few experts would deny that as the human population grows, threats to the food supply become ever more dangerous. And mankind is losing the weapons to fight those threats, as it allows the irreplaceable diversity of the plant kingdom to disappear...