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...late to do much about the newspaper industry now. A lot of people blundered. If any lesson is left behind, it is that the obvious hurdles most business face are not the ones that will bring them down...
...lesson in how to put a great voice to good use, look to PJ Harvey's A Woman a Man Walked By. In 1992, Harvey debuted much as Maria did, as a young woman from a small town in rural England preceded by reports of otherworldly pipes. Now 39, Harvey's got a catalog of near genius records, largely because she developed a musical and emotional repertoire to go along with her talent. She can throw every punch there...
...rush to go fishing for petroleum, as soon as the world economy recovers, so will demand for oil and the pressure to drill offshore in Alaska. And that pressure will surely only grow as climate change causes the Arctic ice to recede. But that is precisely the lesson that must be remembered from the Exxon Valdez: that some parts of the world are too precious to be risked for a few million barrels of oil. "This place was a Shangri-la of the Arctic, a very special place," says Williams. "And today it's lost...
...friend of one of my cast members [of ‘Laramie’] actually told me, ‘Theater is education disguised as entertainment,’” adds Wong. “Diversifying people is great in creating that lesson. Theater is valuable not only in the skills that it teaches, but also in forming relationships with each other.”—Reporting contributed by Crystal Huang...
...meantime, though, it’s time for Cambridge to internalize the lesson that Washington should have learned back in 1930, when the restrictive Smoot-Hawley Tariff helped plunge the United States into the Great Depression: Protectionism may be intuitively appealing and politically convenient, but it’s a one-way street to nowhere...