Word: promotionism
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In 1927 Wilsdorf, never one to shy from promotion, gave an Oyster to Mercedes Gleitze, who wore it to swim across the English Channel. The Oyster Perpetual broke the sound barrier with Chuck Yeager in 1947 and reached the peak of Everest with Edmund Hillary in 1953. Rolex is still...
Academia and South Korean stardom intersected Friday when Harvard’s Korea Institute hosted a panel discussion on the effects and future of “Hallyu” or the “Korean wave” of pop culture in East Asia. The panel offered cross-disciplinary...
Just a few hours after teaching her Civil War conference course, President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust appeared on Jim Lehrer’s “Newshour” last night to discuss her vision for the university she will head in just five months. Faust, who was confirmed on...
Feith may have been one of the Bush Administration's most fervent supporters of war with Iraq but, in truth, he was only a bit player. Indeed, he is the third bit player in the Iraq fiasco to be paying for the sins of his superiors recently. For a couple...
A casualty of this maneuvering will be Gen. George Casey, the president's nominee to be Army Chief of Staff. Casey doesn't look like a great chief in the making - he is no Edward "Shy" Meyer or Eric Shinseki - and his performance in his confirmation hearing last week was...