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...Security Council in New York City. "What makes wars start?" asked Beckett. "Fights over water. Changing patterns of rainfall. Fights over food production, land use. There are few greater potential threats to our economies, too, but also to peace and security itself." Speaking outside the debate, Philip E. Clapp, former president of the New York City-based National Environmental Trust (who died this year), warned: "Global warming is no longer just an environmental issue. It is a rapidly advancing human crisis threatening millions of people, which could undermine the shaky political stability of countries from Southern Africa to the Middle...
...many consumers, however, Circuit City's most obvious failing was its customer service. In March 2007, it announced plans to lay off its highest-paid hourly employees, including salespeople, and replace them with cheaper workers. That same year, then CEO Philip Schoonover received some $7 million in compensation. It may come as no surprise, then, that a quick Web search on "Circuit City complaints" brings up hundreds of thousands of entries...
...don’t know what I’m doing,” Philip Seymour Hoffman laments quietly to an optimistic, uncomprehending Michelle Williams in “Synecdoche, New York.” Hoffman, a playwright and recent recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, is in the midst of an existential dilemma over the theater piece he’s fashioning with his prize money. Williams, his dimwitted lead actress-cum-love interest, responds with a mixture of empathy and idiocy: “That’s what’s so refreshing.”From...
...Pass intended Philip Galligan, hit hard by Collin Zych...
...name Nadia Boulanger may not ring a bell for many of us; in fact, many people may not know that she was one of the most influential forces in classical music during the 20th century, instructing famous composers such as Aaron Copland, Elliot Carter, and Philip Glass. This weekend, an exhibit will open in her honor at the Edna Kuhn Loeb Music Library. Its opening coincides with the “Crosscurrents” conference, which takes place from Thursday, Oct. 30 to Saturday, Nov. 1. “Crosscurrents” will explore the musical interactions between America...