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...When you power up the E62, you see a screen like many other smart devices: a row of icons indicating e-mail, calendar, web browser, media player and note pad. There's a hot button for your Address Book at the bottom right...
...subject of education. In “Re-imagining Liberal Education.” Menand questions the very definition of what it means to be liberally educated.When asked about the parallels between his educational writings and the new report, Menand acknowledges the similarities but is quick to note that these goals were agreed upon by the committee independent of his writing. Other professors echo his sentiment. “We started from first principles—thinking about the purposes of General Education and the goals that would help achieve them,” Lindsley Professor of Psychology Stephen...
...exhibition so sensitive to these cross-cultural currents, Piccinini's final room strikes the one false note. This singular Sierra Leone?born artist, whose mutant monsters speak of a genetically engineered future, seems more interested in nurture than Australian nature. And while Japan's appetite for cute creatures makes it easy to see why the curators found them irresistible, it's difficult relating them to the rest of the show...
...classic work in an entirely surprising direction. Instead of playing a traditional cadenza, Gandelsman switched to a distinctly Chinese theme. Playing over a sustained drone from the cellos and pentatonic bird-calls from the violins, his solo was a stark contrast what would be expected. Gandelsman had bent a note here and there during the piece—his first cadenza had sounded slightly odd, though not oriental. These bent notes had the effect of building to this mid-concerto, multi-cultural moment, in which Mozart and the Zhou dynasty cross. The rest of the program was more traditional Chinese...
...global scale, some viewers will find Babel excitingly far-ranging. Others may find it merely far-fetched. Some will see the casting of Cate Blanchett as the wounded tourist and Brad Pitt as her husband as evidence that it aspires to be a major motion picture. Others will note the anonymity of the other players and see it as a lengthy, overambitious art-house entry. Those of us who think Gonzlez Irritu is one of the movies' larger youngish talents will perhaps be inclined to cut him a good deal of slack...