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...It’s a prescient challenge for Huyghe, a rising star in the art world. He arrives at Harvard following the receipt of a prestigious Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Guggenheim Museum in 2002 and representation of France at the Venice Biennale the year before. While his previous films and multi-media installations have touched on the legacy of Corbusier-inspired Modernism—and, most often, upon its idealistic failure—Huyghe, who is in his early 40s, was, like most of the students who inhabit the Carpenter Center, born only after the building?...
While Kerry displayed prescient insight into the terrorist threat years ago, Bush is stuck in a pre-9/11 mentality that was unwise then and is shockingly obtuse in the wake of the terrorist attacks. What emerges from the president’s record on security is a persistent attention gap: time and again, on issues that should be no-brainers after September 11, the administration dropped the ball...
...Long View (1991)--now part of the curriculum at many management schools--Schwartz outlined three post--cold war scenarios for the year 2005. New Empires saw the rise of multiple warring trading blocs. Market World imagined the spread of capitalism creating a peaceful "global commons." But the most prescient vision was Change Without Progress--a world plagued by ethnic revolution, "global gang wars," corporate raiders, hackers and "portable radio-connected telephones...
...Even though the book is physically big and heavy, it reads fast. The ten original strips have been padded out with a fascinating but limited collection of the old strips that Spiegelman found particularly prescient to the events of a century later. One episode of Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland has Nemo and his pals as giants, toppling over the buildings of New York. Only 36 pages, the book amounts to little more content than an average comic. Frustratingly, the author's introduction tantalizes us with synopses of strips he didn't get to. Just do them...
Early last century, before opinion polls were invented, the U.S. press tracked the ups and downs of a huge political-betting market centered on Wall Street. According to University of North Carolina economist Paul Rhode, bettors were remarkably prescient: in 12 presidential elections between 1896 and 1940, the underdog won only once. Today Americans can "wager" on elections online through the Iowa Electronic Markets, a small-scale futures exchange that lets people buy contracts on candidates based on their estimated chance of victory. (At press time, George W. Bush led John Kerry 54% to 46%.) Since its 1988 launch...