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...Chinese public has long been prone to worship leaders who appear even infinitesimally different from dictators. Take, for example, the public's veneration of Premier Zhou Enlai toward the end of the Cultural Revolution. That reverence had much more to do with disillusionment with Mao than evidence that Zhou was truly another kind of leader. As the French politician L?on Blum once said, "I believe it because I hope for it." The Chinese public might mistake benevolence from their ruler for democratic values and might confuse administrative reforms with real political reforms?but the leadership will...
...wearing linen shorts, T shirts and sandals. Everybody, that is, except the mountainous man striding through the gardens in his dark suit and tie. Thomas Krens is hard to miss in any setting; in Venice, he attracts knowing glances from the art world crowd. Even at the Biennale, a premier event on the international art calendar, the big American may be the biggest show in town. As director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Krens, 56, controls the world's farthest-flung museum empire, an endowment projected to hit $78 million by the end of the year...
Luckily for me, there is a whole subculture of TiVo users who squeeze better performance out of their boxes by hacking into them. Two how-to books on the topic will be published in August (TiVo Hacks, O'Reilly; Hacking the TiVo, Premier Press). There's also a step-by-step guide at tivofaq.com/hack Or you can do what I did: install a ready-made upgrade from WeaKnees.com All hacking will, of course, void your warranty. But what you get in return is a supercharged TiVo with three or more times the recording capacity. The larger the hard drive...
...viewed in the context of what our competitors are doing,” he wrote in a February memo to the University’s top planner Kathy Spiegelman, referring to recently-built student centers at Columbia and Princeton. “Harvard’s standing as the premier college in America, on which so much of the University’s reputation rests, should not be taken for granted as invulnerable if the problems discussed here are not addressed by University planners...
Just as varsity athletes are pitted against fitness junkies, a similar situation at Harvard’s premier theater space pits student thespians against professional actors...