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...Qaeda and how they "looked after" his Muslim brethren. It's just such a paradoxical pose, at once insular and international, Islamist and secular, that befuddles those outside Pakistan's porous borders, and which is at the crux of Hanging Fire, a survey of contemporary art from a nation known more today for automatic-weapons fire than the arts and humanities...
During a late-afternoon perusal of New York Magazine’s Daily Intel blog, we were amused to find an interesting little “quote” from one of our very own—HBS professor William W. George (better known as simply Bill George). “If you don’t pay them for their performance, you’ll lose them. It's much like professional athletes and movie stars," George had said, supposedly referring (as the blog had initially suggested) to bankers...
...Hollywood star best known for playing the Terminator and Conan the Barbarian, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California six years ago to slay the deficit dragon that has been terrorizing the state for most of the past decade. But in his final budget proposal, on Jan. 8, Schwarzenegger, a Republican, struggled to address a $19.9 billion budget gap over the next 18 months, unveiling plans that include what he calls "draconian cuts" to social services. The man who used to be hailed as the Governator didn't reference any of his action movies to describe his battles with...
...some 100 works he has studied, which include Egyptian sculptures and contemporary paintings, Franco is particularly fond of exploring those that depict ailments during the Renaissance. Among his conclusions: the Spanish child Margarita, in Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas, likely suffered from both a thyroid condition known as goiter and the genetic disorder linked to premature puberty, McCune-Albright syndrome. The unusually long, thin fingers of the young nobleman in Sandro Botticelli's Portrait of a Young Man, which is displayed at the National Gallery in Washington, indicates that the subject suffered from Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder...
...year political career, saying she had been suffering from "serious bouts of depression." Then, on Jan. 6, a handful of television journalists were invited to meet Peter Robinson at his home outside Belfast. Robinson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Northern Ireland's largest political party, is known for his clinical, dispassionate public image. As the cameras rolled, Robinson appeared to fight back tears as he revealed his wife's extramarital affair and the fact that Iris had attempted suicide last March because she'd been "racked with guilt" over the relationship. The Spotlight program subsequently revealed McCambley...