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Blocking: 1. Often painful process in March during which you will have to select your seven closest friends. Have...
...fellows and three members of the alumni Board of Overseers. The search is expected to finish before next summer. Rubin’s presence on the search committee will allow him to push for a candidate who shares Summers’ vision for the University. As Harvard prepares to select its third leader in just two years, Ford likewise is entering a period of transition. The automaker announced this January that it would shed up to a quarter of its workforce and that it would shift production toward smaller, fuel-efficient cars. In his letter announcing his resignation from Ford?...
...Royal Tenenbaums Wes Anderson The emphasis at Criterion is on classic foreign films, but the folks there do select U.S. movies, and they do love Anderson--they offer three of his four features. His deadpan comic sense gives his work a retro-European feel that suits the collection. Tenenbaums, his most agreeable offering, boasts a stellar cast and the emotional edginess of a real-life domestic epic. Among the extras is a revealing documentary portrait of Anderson by cinema verité pioneer Albert Maysles...
...News (Outfoxed), big-box department stores (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price) and now the mercenary and munitions companies getting rich off of U.S. Defense Department contracts. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers will open the same innovative way Greenwald's previous documentaries have screened - in a select few theaters starting September 8th, a DVD release mid-month, and later thousands of grass-roots "house parties" where the documentary video is played for invited friends and neighbors. TIME's Jeffrey Ressner spoke with Greenwald as two of his films - the one he directed, another he produced - appear...
...Fund" offered by the private-banking arm of the French giant Soci?t? G?n?rale Group. Available primarily to customers of SocG?n's Asian private bank, the fund is linked to a specially created Cayman Islands firm that, acting on the advice of wine experts and auction houses, buys and stores select vintages. Investors wanting to cash out after the minimum one-year holding period may redeem their shares for actual bottles of wine, which can be drunk or resold at a profit (or loss) by a wine broker. "It's a physical fund, and it's very liquid," quips Daniel Truchi...