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Even the famous are working feverishly to cash in. Paul Krugman, who just won the Nobel Prize for Economics, is having one of his backlist titles brushed off and reissued with revisions. Publisher W.W. Norton & Co. is lengthening the title of 1999 book The Return of Depression Economics with an appendage: ... and the Crisis of 2008. Krugman has agreed to write three new chapters, revise two and eliminate two. He started writing two weeks ago in order to make the release date...
...groups competed in the first annual i3 “Elevator Pitch” competition, held this past Saturday at Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall. Nicholas J. Navarro ’10, MIT juniors Sean Liu and Cheuk Leung, and MIT management student Murali Govindaswamy won the first-place prize of $500 with their pitch of a new “wireless mesh technology” that would bring cheaper Internet access to the people of China. The technology that the team plans to establish in China was developed at MIT and has not yet been used in the Asian...
...sort of surprised by the extent to which the questions focused on the Nobel Prize but not on Dr. Wästberg’s humanitarian work,” said audience member Spencer B.L. Lenfield ’12. Wästberg is also known for his anti-Apartheid work in South Africa and for founding the Swedish arm of Amnesty International...
...cool structure, head over to Central Park's Rumsey Playfield where starchitect Zaha Hadid has dreamed up Mobile Art. Inside the building is a project by Karl Lagerfeld - an exhibition of 20 variations on the classic Chanel handbag designed by artists including Yoko Ono. Well, at least the Pritzker Prize-winner Hadid's building is worth seeing. After its New York run, the entire exhibit will be taken down and reassembled in London, then Moscow and Paris. Admission is free, but you have to show up onsite to get your same-day tickets; the box office opens...
...close the gap between mediocrity and magnificence.Amitav Ghosh’s new novel, “Sea of Poppies,” certainly has impressive hopes for itself. Perhaps its pure ambition was responsible for the book’s place on the short list for the Man Booker Prize. Ghosh juggles four or five storylines, a handful of countries, and a variety of languages (both official and pidgin) across 500 pages—and “Sea of Poppies” is only the first book in a planned trilogy. In an interview with British newspaper The Guardian...