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...piano, who were performing as a group for the first time. As they played, Previn sat on the side, following along with a Brahms score.In response to the performance, Previn focused on certain passages in the piece, asking the trio to repeat specific parts of the movement. But he did not only focus on technicalities; he also made remarks about the trio’s holistic playing. “You don’t have to stick to the absolute metronomic legitimacy of this,” he said. “If you feel like it should...
...worst-case scenario: a repeat of the Asian crisis of a decade ago, when regional economies and governments were convulsed by devastating recession. That prospect still seems remote. Growth in Asia has remained relatively robust in 2008 and financial sectors sound. But Asian stock markets, most of which have plummeted by 30% or more this year, are signaling harder times ahead. Falling export growth and tighter credit are already beginning to pinch. Merrill Lynch expects GDP growth in Asia (excluding Japan) of 7.7% this year, the slowest pace since 2003. Next year could be worse if the U.S. enters...
Nice timing. With Wall Street in tatters, this lesson in Business Failures 101 should have a built-in readership. The authors don't overintellectualize failure; they are strictly from the school of Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned to Repeat It. They make a persuasive case that it is only by studying the (costly) mistakes that other businesses have made that executives and investors can steer clear of disaster...
...most effective warnings are like the most effective TV ads: easily understood, specific, frequently repeated, personal, accurate and targeted. Paulson and his grim reapers managed only to repeat themselves frequently. They were not easily understood, partly because the problem is so complex. They did not personalize or target their warnings. And, as they themselves admitted, they did not know if their warnings were necessarily accurate, due to the novelty and unpredictability of the crisis...
...first time in Tercentenary Theater in honor of Harvard’s 350th anniversary. “I thought, ‘how can anyone possibly hear a poem over the loudspeakers?” he said. “So I decided to compose a villanelle. Just repeat repeat repeat.” In the second half-hour, Heaney read several yet to be published poems, inspired by his translation of the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid. He closed the afternoon with a reading of ‘Postscript,’ from his volume...