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...much when it offends an entire community. I have to put the word “master” in quotes because, yes, it makes me cringe every time I say it/see it/think about it. It essentially encompasses the horror of the institution of slave and master that our country was conceived by, yet the College maintains this derogatory title in each House...
...next? A flyer for the “Massah’s Open House?” Neither I, nor any other person in the Harvard community should ever have to address someone by a title that is as blatantly offensive as the word “master,” and I refuse to do so ever again...
...companies have bought into are already mature, and many experts feel they have overpaid. "China has been singularly unsuccessful in its overseas ventures," says Jim Brock, a Beijing-based energy consultant. "They're trying to learn in a decade what it's taken big foreign companies a century to master...
...Kooning: An American Master (Knopf; 732 pages), you get a full sense of de Kooning's quiet charm and his rollicking genius. What you also grasp is his stupendous gift fOr self-destruction. Mark Stevens, the art critic for New York magazine, and his wife, writer Annalyn Swan, have produced a superb biography, thorough and surefooted. It's a book full of nuanced readings of de Kooning's work and sympathetic but dry-eyed accounts of his very disordered life, especially in the 1970s and '80s. Those were the years when he was treated as a national treasure, even...
...Some 2,000 stores around the country are devoted to the practice, up from just a few hundred five years ago. Diehards attend scrapbooking cruises and gather in online chat rooms to trade advice on overcoming "journaler's block" and remedying puffy eyes. There are magazines and even a "master's" program dedicated to the craft. "People are seeing that life is short, and they're preserving family memories for their children," says Marianne Madsen, managing editor of Creating Keepsakes, the industry's largest magazine...