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...part of China's new business establishment-in-formation, and in style and attitude, it could not be more different from the one bidding its Western counterparts farewell at the Jianfu Palace. Many, of course, have been educated in the West, and worked there. (SOHO's Zhang went to Oxford and worked at Goldman Sachs.) The point is not that they are merely comfortable in hip, international settings. They are creating them...
...story is really quite simple: A poor but honorable lad named Charles Ryder (played in the new movie by Matthew Goode) goes up to Oxford where he meets Sebastian Marchmain (Ben Whishaw) when the latter leans in his window and throws up on his floor. Soon enough they're dining on plover's eggs and mooning over one another. Sebastian introduces Charles to his family - in this film living in a statelier home than any Masterpiece Theater ever dreamed of - which includes his sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell), and his sternly religious mother (Emma Thompson, splendidly playing as far from...
Books about how to read fiction are a thriving business. This summer also brings us Thomas C. Foster on How to Read Novels Like a Professor (Harper; 304 pages) and John Mullan on How Novels Work (Oxford; 346 pages), though Wood, as a book critic for the New Yorker, is the heavyweight of the field. These books fall into the curious netherworld of extra-academic literary theory. They are the last, depleted descendants of what used to be called aesthetics, the branch of philosophy that theorized the human response to works of art. For most intents and purposes, aesthetics collapsed...
Consumers: The Party's Over Oxford Street, London's busiest retail area, is still teeming with shoppers hunting for end-of-season sales bargains, but the store owners are anything but happy. Marks & Spencer's stock dropped 25% in a day on July 2 after the firm issued a profit warning. At privately owned rival John Lewis, sales in the summer-clearance week at the end of June fell more than 8% compared with the same week in 2007. Patrick Lewis, who heads the company's retail operations, said the market "has certainly got an edge tougher...
Hood may not have the board he wanted; his decision last November to quit when his five-year term ends in September 2009 means it's unlikely he ever will. But by orchestrating Oxford's mammoth $2.5 billion campaign, he'll have played no small part in increasing the university's competitiveness in the years to come. On June 18, the university pocketed a $50 million donation from Michael Moritz, a U.S.-based venture capitalist, one of its biggest ever. He has done his bit for the dreaming spires. For the remaining Oxford alumni out there, the question is: Have...