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When it comes to international affairs, Harvard academics are often associated with a single phrase. For Joseph S. Nye, Jr., it’s “soft power,” for Samuel P. Huntington it’s “the clash of civilizations,” and for Francis Fukuyama, now at Johns Hopkins, it’s “the end of history...
...about keeping the party's core conservative supporters excited about this fall's elections. That's why, in the last two weeks, the House of Representatives has tried to pass bills that would ban gay marriage and strip power from the federal courts to rule on cases involving the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. This week House leaders will take on two other causes that conservatives have been unhappy about President Bush's leadership on: in three different hearings, they'll continue bashing the Senate-passed immigration bill that would create a guest worker program for illegal...
...bomb-affected Western line ran as usual the next day, with many commuters returning to work on their preferred mode of transport. Here in Calcutta, I have heard from many of my friends in Bombay about the “indomitable spirit” of their city, a phrase that has been used extensively by the television news channels reporting from Bombay. There were reports of people serving tea, bread, and daal to survivors and friends at train stations, free rides home were offered and gratefully accepted, beds for lost travelers and survivors were provided by slum-dwellers, and people...
...your working day involves listening to or making presentations, then the last thing you'll want to do after hours is sit and look at more slides on a screen?unless you happen to be attending a Pecha Kucha Night, that is. Named after the onomatopoeic Japanese phrase for the sound of talking, Pecha Kucha Nights are spreading like wildfire through the creative professions, based on a highly entertaining premise: invite a group of leading designers to talk about their current work, using only 20 slides, with each slide on screen for just 20 seconds. Top names, the quickfire pace...
Vick is not, by a long stretch, Night (as everyone calls Shyamalan). The filmmaker not only has a vision, he already knows it sells. His big-break movie, The Sixth Sense, which gave us the phrase "I see dead people" in 1999, took in $672 million at the worldwide box office; Signs in 2002, an additional $408 million. Even his "flops," Unbreakable and The Village, grossed in the $250 million range. Shyamalan (pronounced Shah-ma-lahn) is well aware of the power of those numbers. "Except for Pixar, I have made the four most successful original movies...