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...York”—often incite celebrity outrage. In March 2006, George Clooney called for people to “flood their Web site with bogus sightings” to sabotage Gawker Stalker, the blog’s controversial feature that pinpoints celebrity sightings on an online map of Manhattan. Gawker’s response? “We did a George Clooney contest for the best picture of him,” Coen said. Yesterday evening, Coen, who said she was suffering from a cold, did not mention specific plans for the future apart from her intention...
...map of Europe is among the most contested in human history, but since the Soviet Union imploded, the EU has redefined their purpose. For a millennium after the fall of Rome, realpolitik ruled European polities, creating small, warring states that competed for preeminence and hegemony. Some even dreamt of empire on the continent, based on race, ideology, glory, or all of the above. They all failed. Political cartography became a popular art: Maps were redrawn endlessly following every war. Those borders were key to separating communities with particular languages, religions, and cultures...
Eduardo Castro-Wright could see the problem instantly. One of his first exercises as the newly appointed president of Division No. 1, the highfalutin internal designation for Wal-Mart's 3,500-unit domestic discount chain, was to map every underperforming store in the country. Most of the worst were clustered around big coastal cities like Boston and Los Angeles. As he toured those stores, Castro-Wright could sense they weren't connecting with their neighborhoods. And neither were the managers--they weren't in Arkansas anymore. "You'd talk to managers and they...
...than four or five pages at a time off of a computer screen. But digital consumption of text is growing every day. Most Harvard students lack even a cursory knowledge of what is contained in the prodigious collections of Widener Library, and few could navigate the stacks without a map. In this generation of HOLLIS-dependent undergrads, the only romance associated with the library can be found in the smutty open dialogue of Bored@Lamont or late-night hookups in Widener. Thanks to the boom in digitized literature, students are increasingly able to forego the simple pleasures of the musty...
...nude. Although criminal complaints against him were dropped in 2004 by the New Delhi High Court, attacks against the painter were rekindled last year when an Indian newsweekly published an advertisement featuring a Husain painting in which a naked representation of mother India draped herself across a map of the country. Husain was promptly charged with "hurting the sentiments of Hindus." In response, he withdrew the painting from auction and now lives in self-imposed exile in Dubai and London...