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...music-education projects of its kind in the world, emulated today as far away as Scotland. It has also produced its own international superstar: conductor Gustavo Dudamel, 28, who was recently named musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic but is returning to lead the Simon Bolivar on this month's tour of the U.S. and Europe. "Dudamel," says Abreu, "is the incarnation of Venezuela's emergence as a musical power in the world." (Read more about Gustavo Dudamel...
This past week, Dean Jay M. Harris announced that the print versions of the Q Guide, Courses of Instruction, and Handbook for Students would be eliminated. Meanwhile, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer became an online-only publication last month, and the Boston Globe struggles to survive. This year, more than any other, has demonstrated the uncertain future of the print media in all its forms. And, in its decision to exclusively publish online the information contained in academic guidebooks normally distributed in hard copy to all Harvard students each fall, the administration has wisely responded to a larger national trend...
...article in the Boston Globe published last month, Drake Bennett calls this last tenet into question. Bennett offers up examples of companies whose goal-driven business models led them to fail, from GM’s ill-fated drive to capture 29 percent of the automobile market to Ford’s disregard for warnings about the combustibility-prone Pinto in its disastrous determination to win back market share. What goes for business goes for life—Bennett quotes Adam Galinsky, a professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, who warns that goal-setting...
...current financial crisis, this is just the right time to keep one’s mind open to unconsidered academic and job possibilities. While not having one’s life plotted out can be terrifying, given economic conditions—663,000 more jobs were cut last month, bringing the jobless rate to a record 8.5 percent—the danger may lie not in planning too little, but too much. According to U.S. Department of Labor estimates, the average American changes careers three to five times in his lifetime, making flexibility imperative. Perhaps it’s time...
...Reiki. The Emerson Resort & Spa in New York State's picturesque Hudson Valley is teaching the Japanese stress-relieving techniques of reiki. The first Sunday of each month, the Shoden class teaches students how to heal through guided imagery. The third Sunday of the month, the Okuden class helps you learn to move energy through breath. But if your idea of stress-relief is sitting back and being pampered, forgo the classes and check out the four-star spa's massages, facials and hydrotherapy treatments. The reiki package starts at $436 per night, including breakfast, dinner...