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...future. There is no equivalent consensus that tablets or couch computers or casual computers are inevitably on the road ahead. We don't even agree on the aims here: Is the iPad replacing the laptop or supplementing it? The scale of the wager means that - unlike Jobs' self-professed hobby, the Apple TV - the iPad will be a site of rapid innovation over the next 24 months. Making broad statements about Apple's long-term intentions based on features that didn't ship with Version One is a fool's errand. We spent six months hyperventilating about how Apple...
...week in mid-February, the Harvard community will have one more way to witness the exchange of virtue for self-liberation—and this time it won’t just be your roommate shaking off the January blues. Instead, this spectacle comes in the form of a comic, irreverent tale of innocence lost and knowledge gained: the Dunster House Opera’s upcoming production of Benjamin Britten’s “Albert Herring...
...have a rule list of things you can and can’t do. The all-black rule is for fashion shows and events. It’s like a private school. We don’t want self-expression at our shows. Do you think Martin Margiela wants his PR team to wear Cavalli? I don’t think so. Black is non-descript. You don’t know if it’s GAP or Yohji...
...directly and more vividly. As Obama negotiates with Congress on a jobs bill and other long-term recovery efforts behind the scenes, he should use the bully pulpit to fight the forces that impede his agenda in the open. This year, Obama should fully embrace the role of the self-sacrificial, morally-driven protagonist of the political theater...
This is the best pathway toward reviving trust in Washington while the long, slow process of job recovery sets in. Like TR, Obama need not condemn the self-interested and entrepreneurial spirit of Wall Street. He need only argue the truth: Business is underpinned by certain social norms, which are being undermined. Like TR, Obama should condemn misconduct and not condemn wealth. TR’s theme was that prosperity demands a certain level of trust between Wall Street and Main Street. When the economic elite forget that they are also citizens, the trust between the privately powerful...