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...package leads off with the historian David M. Kennedy--whose book about the Depression, Freedom from Fear, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000--revealing how F.D.R., like Obama, saw crisis as opportunity. Next up is Adam Cohen's illuminating piece on the dynamic launch of the Roosevelt Administration. Cohen is the author of Nothing to Fear, an account of F.D.R.'s first 100 days. To get a free-marketeer's dissenting take on F.D.R.'s policies, we turned to Amity Shlaes, whose recent book The Forgotten Man argues that the New Deal not only failed to reverse the Great Depression...
...failure. After it ended, following two days in Burma and two rare and lengthy meetings with General Than Shwe, the reclusive leader of the country's military government, Ban had come away with nothing concrete to show for his venture. His requests to meet imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi were rejected. His pleas for the government to release its 2,000-plus political prisoners were ignored. "I believe the government of Myanmar failed to take a unique opportunity to show its commitment to a new era of openness," Ban told reporters at Bangkok's international airport...
...stage, opera hall and movie screen, Elliot Goldenthal has proved himself one of the most versatile composers of his generation. In 1995, he adapted Shakespeare's Othello as a ballet. In 2003, he won an Academy Award for his score to Frida. In 2006, he was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his original three-act opera Grendel, which premiered at the Los Angeles Opera. And on July 1, he makes his return to the big screen with a score for Michael Mann's Public Enemies. Goldenthal spoke to TIME about the compositional challenges he faced in scoring the life...
...city of Venice seems to physically contract every two years when the Biennale brings hordes of museum directors, curators, collectors, and art world luminaries into the city for “Vernissage,” the opening week of parties, private viewings, and prize-giving. This period has the effect of overwhelming those who can just barely fathom the city’s permanent artistic highlights. So, even without the incessant chatter and social whirlwinds that begin the Biennale, a water-bound escape to the Cimitero would benefit anyone who feels relentlessly confronted by visual masterpieces and glories. Of course...
...Japan's Kyoto Prize for arts and philosophy for her pioneering work in developing a new genre of ballet...