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...first room, with its swollen bronze belly and deeply incised decoration. And when, in a nearby case, you see a late neolithic pi, or jade disk--a circle of translucent greenish stone with a hole cut in the center, like a harvest moon rising, whose austerity reveals its maker's deep understanding of its material--the notion of progress in art seems more than normally fatuous...
...head. He was among the first of a new breed of black Washington insiders with the connections and influence to make things happen for clients as diverse as civil rights leaders and fat-cat corporate executives. Jesse Jackson, for one, describes himself as "a tree shaker, not a jelly maker." Brown was just the reverse, a jelly maker par excellence...
Recent commercials for Advil and Tylenol, each "campaigning" against the other for a larger share of the billion-dollar painkiller market, have made political commercials seem relatively benign. A few weeks ago, Johnson and Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, and the American Home Products Company, the maker of Advil, started their own battle in the painkiller scene. Both companies made numerous television commercials decrying the side effects of the other brand...
...California can't arbitrarily lower its cost of labor or real estate. Intel, the world's largest maker of microchips, chose Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the site for a new $1.3 billion semiconductor plant, stiffing its own headquarters location in pricey Silicon Valley. New Mexico sweetened the deal further by giving Intel a 30-year exemption from property taxes for the plant, which Intel says will create 3,000 jobs. The exemption formed the bulk of a 30-year, $566 million incentive package from New Mexico that works out to nearly $190,000 per job. (New Mexico's unemployment rate...
DIED. DAVID PACKARD, 83, electronics and computer pioneer; in Stanford, California. The "Birthplace of Silicon Valley," an official California State landmark, is the garage where Packard and his Stanford University classmate William Hewlett opened a workshop in 1939. Today Hewlett-Packard is the nation's second largest computer maker (behind IBM). Packard eschewed corporate pomposity, preferring "management by walking around" to keep employee morale high and focus on achieving objectives. In the '60s, he met with Stanford students protesting his company's defense contracts, and later mediated talks between them and their school. His personable style and civic activism inspired...