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...more than $177 million at the box office. The Pixar IPO, timed to take place just after Toy Story opened, was a huge hit too. The share price more than doubled in the first hour of trading, and Jobs, who owns 80% of the company, was a billion dollars richer. Since then, the price has dropped so that Jobs' holdings are worth a mere $728 million...
Still, I bring some good news as well for those of you who thought your intellectual gifts came in exchange for fortune in love. Because like on any other day of the year, on Valentine's Day, the rich get richer and the poor get, well, lonelier...
...used to function as our most impermeable cultural boundaries requires a willingness to live our beliefs together--not to put them aside, or to sequester them from each other. The month of December, for instance, which bristles with various meanings and observances for our respective religious traditions, is a richer time at Harvard, now, not a poorer one, because our beliefs and rituals have met each other here candidly, sometimes uneasily, not without tension, but in their respective integrities...
...game, however, is football. So look for the Darwinian, rich-get-richer, dancing and dissing Cowboys to become the first franchise to win six Super Bowls. And look for a forced smile from N.F.L. commissioner Paul Tagliabue as he hands over the trophy to his nemesis. Big Daddy no doubt will be swooshing at his fortune...
...lobes of Princess X, the sculpture whose supposedly phallic qualities caused such a foofaraw in Paris in 1920. (It would always infuriate Brancusi that Princess X was interpreted as a penis and testicles rather than a woman's head, neck and breasts, but of course the sculpture is richer for its double meaning.) Because his work was deeply influenced by classical Indian and Khmer sculpture, it may be that the Eastern practice of gilding the effigy of the Buddha--gold being a symbol of supreme reality--prompted his use of high polish. But there is no doubt about its results...