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...event “Afro-Asian Encounters” in Harvard Hall last night, visiting history professor Eric Tang disputed the notion that Asian Americans had “stolen” hip-hop music from African Americans. “Theft is too strong a word—lovingly hijacked,” Tang said. As part of the ongoing 2008 Educational/Political Colloquium Series, “Afro-Asian Encounters”—co-hosted by the Asian American Association (AAA) and the Black Students Association (BSA)—explored the relationship between African and Asian...
...changing Japan. Partly, that is because of the concept of mottainai, which literally means "what a waste" and is manifest in an almost reflexive desire to conserve and reuse. Centuries before there was an environmental movement, the Japanese embraced origami, an art form - originally from China - based on the notion of creation without cutting. Fashion designer Issey Miyake adapted the concept 30 years ago in apparel made with a single piece of cloth, cut so that no pieces wind up in the garbage...
...Johnson & Johnson, the notion of engagement is part of overhauling the way the firm manages. One component gives work teams substantially more feedback on how they help the company as a whole. Imagine a chemical engineer in a Tylenol plant logging onto a system that shows how his factory's output feeds into divisional output--and how much closer that brings the company to its quarterly goals. "We believe this really creates commitment," says Kuschel. Once you're committed, the thinking goes, you work harder and make the company more money...
...solutions. As integral as the ethics of electronica may be for Gonzales, who records as M83, many of the artist’s finest moments draw heavily on the warped guitar-pressure of early British shoegaze or the Zen-like drone of ambient post-rock. The truth of this notion holds firm on M83’s fifth album, the dreamlike “Saturdays=Youth,” whose simultaneously sunny and spacey atmospheres buoy the album to stunning highs.Throughout the album, Gonzales hints at some sort of dramatic theme underlying all the layers of glassy synthesizers...
...very Brown notion - sincere, well-meaning, international. It won't lead the evening news, which is his problem. But perhaps it should, which is ours...