Word: philipe
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With its dark furniture, high-tech gadgets and model jet plane, Philip Green's London office feels a lot like the work area of an investment banker or hedge fund manager. On the wall behind his enormous desk, there's even a photograph of Wall Street antihero Gordon Gekko. But on this May morning, a daytime-TV segment flickering on his sleek, flat-screened television betrays his role as a master of an entirely different universe: women's fashion...
...great Senegalese singer and political activist, started off the evening with a set of remarkable songs, culminating in a lyrical ode to Africa. Jimmy Wales, inventor of Wikipedia, met with Richard Dawkins, the biologist and outspoken atheist, to explain why Dawkins' attempts to edit Wikipedia entries kept being rejected. Philip Rosedale, creator of the popular Second Life, a virtual world online, crisscrossed the cocktail floor in search of Suzanne Vega, the noted singer, whom he had met on Second Life but never in person. Each table was a microcosm of the TIME 100 issue, with leaders, scientists and entrepreneurs joining...
...Philip Rosedale created alternate reality Second Life...
...reason proposal was eliminated from the general education proposal, because it would have thematized these questions in a way that would have been relevant to the believing students, as well as to non-believing students” says visiting professor of science and religion at the Divinity school Philip Clayton. “And surely these questions are of cultural importance in our world today...
...comes a time when we are supposed to discard children’s books and read “real” literature. Yet something about the books adults read when they’re young continues to attract and influence them. Books like the Harry Potter series and Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy owe a large part of their success to fact that they’ve managed to attract adult readerships. And adults still seek to justify the books they enjoyed as children. The Harvard English Department often offers...