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...other journalists that I cover the environment, I usually get the same reaction: you're really lucky. (I'm assuming they don't just mean because I still have a job.) After years on the back pages and the back burner, the environment has emerged as one of the major issues facing the globe today, with the attendant media attention to match. But what keeps it perpetually fresh as a subject is its scope - climate change touches on science, Washington, business, society, geopolitics, even religion, and the reporting does as well. The sheer complexity means there's always something...
...very fact that the Boston Ballet would undertake such a challenging piece symbolizes the organization’s progress to a more educated audience. As the “Jewels” playbill notes, “in producing Jewels, Boston Ballet enters a league that includes such major international companies as The Royal Ballet/Covent Garden, the Paris Opera Ballet and the Maryinsky Theater’s Kirov Ballet.” Whether all the Boston Ballet’s ambitions will be realized or not, this particular performance of “Jewels” was certainly successful, leading...
...lessons, the crucial elements of “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”—the surprise in each phrase, the sparkle made possible by underlying, repeated sixteenth notes—come alive, truly transforming the piece into a story the audience could fully understand.With the last G major chord of “Rondo” ringing the decisive finale to the first half of the presentation, the stage is rapidly rearranged to replace the music stands with a stool, a chair, and a table set for breakfast. Kapilow reemerges to present his own original piece, named...
...Harvard to follow the lead of a for-profit corporation like GSK. The influence of pharmaceutical companies at universities is a controversial topic. We are often rightly cautioned that becoming too closely tied with industry may lead us to lose sight of our public interest mission. Yet when a major pharmaceutical company takes the lead in promoting access to medicines in developing countries, following Big Pharma would bring us more in line with our own core values as an educational nonprofit...
...that shift back to large companies as the major force behind jobs generation can take years. The lesson for the short-term seems to be that small companies are a better bet for work. Just be careful of applying the trend to any specific firm. Small companies on average may not be shedding as many jobs as large ones, but smaller companies are by their very nature volatile-looking at aggregate numbers hides all the instances of companies growing insanely quickly or imploding into nothingness. It's still the case that most people work for large companies: 45% at firms...