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Other initiatives in what the younger Roberts terms "Comcast 3.0" include rolling out more services to small businesses and hiring more customer-service representatives. But don't expect major deals in the near term. Roberts, who earned $20.8 million in 2007, allows that Comcast has a long way to go but says he's the guy to get it there: "I can't think of a business, industry or company I want to lead as much as this...
RUSSIA PULLS OUT Russian troops dismantled their checkpoints and camps in Georgia, preparing to withdraw from buffer zones near the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. A deal brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and monitored by E.U. peacekeepers set an Oct. 10 deadline for Russia to return the zones to Georgia. Despite a bomb in South Ossetia's capital that threatened to disrupt the withdrawal, Russian forces continued as planned...
...Though Harvard’s portraits are often embroiled in debates over gender and race, the collection also represents a continuous history of American portraiture and contains some stunning examples of the genre. There is, for instance, the exquisite portrait of John Quincy Adams that sits near the tray disposal in Adams dining hall. It is a work by Gilbert Stuart, perhaps the most famous American portrait artist, and was finished by Thomas Scully. Grindlay calls it “a very major work of American art.” Another Singer Sargent, of Charles W. Eliot, rests in Eliot...
...hand-reproduced texts of various origins—to the “Mariales” series—comprised of intricately-folded canvases treated with bright colors, forming beautiful and disorienting aperiodic patterns. For a long period, however, he sealed himself off from the public, becoming virtually invisible. Near the end of his career in public, the Times reports, Hantaï presented his work at “a noncommercial exhibition space in Paris.” The artist cited an irreconcilable vision of his work with the public as responsible for his isolation: “I felt...
...spends much of the song filling space with pointless “la, la, las,” which leads to a rather confused message. Given the complete lack of melody offered by either Morello’s guitar or voice, the song drifts by without being anywhere near as passionate as it wants...