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Of course, I am rather sensitive to all this because I, too, was born to a white mother and a black father, though I did not fully absorb this fact, which would have been so obvious to the outside world, until I was old enough to notice the world's...
It was the payday that shook Wall Street: nearly $140 million in compensation set aside for Big Board chairman Dick Grasso. But when Grasso, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, tried in 2003 to cash in early, the revelations about his staggering paycheck triggered an imbroglio that ended his...
Certain aspects of national character may also play a role. Abstraction and theory have long been prized in France's intellectual life and emphasized in its schools. Nowhere is that tendency more apparent than in French fiction, which still suffers from the introspective 1950s nouveau roman (new novel) movement. Many...
This temptation to obsession is the new frontier of behavioral science. Where and how we use our devices define our species and sensibility. A whole new school of Edith Wharton etiquette arises. It's O.K. for your boss to check his BlackBerry at lunch, because he's a Very Important...
America is obsessed—with sports, with food, with television, with scandal. And, as Mark J. Penn ’76 reminds us in his new book, “Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes,” America is obsessed with itself...