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...white photographs of glass lamps by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Daum Freres, brass fantasies wrought by Josef Hoffmann and a lacquered wood-and-parchment floor fixture by Eileen Gray. There are modernist abstractions as well as familiar nymphs in flowing robes. Among the most delightful surprises: a bronze snail, its light contained beneath a shell of oxide-colored glass, and Emile Galle's magnificent lamp, a trio of mushrooms...
Then Post, who has advised such companies as Verizon and Pfizer, wades into the fray around the hottest digital issue. He comes down on the side of paper thank-you notes. Rely on snail mail? Fine, send an e-mail and a card, he counsels. That strikes me as being as impractical as writing with a quill. Another sensitive subject: men helping women in business situations. Should a man hold a woman's chair at the table? The car door? Is it too chivalrous, too sexist? The best policy for men, says Post, is to ask the woman what...
...plot their future fortunes. "In that one bar on any given night," recalls Salzman, "there were people who, combined, could have pledged to invest $50 billion on the spot." The good times didn't last. In large part due to the communist government's murky investment rules and snail-pace economic reforms, investors grew frustrated and disillusioned over Vietnam's prospects. After the 1997 Asian financial crisis hit, the country's growth rate plunged from 8.2% to 4.8% in two years. "Vietnam didn't so much crash," Salzman recalls. "It was more like...
...field when called to dictatorship, an activity that he blissfully resumed after having saved the Republic. In view of our current bureaucratic standstill, I venture that this is the path Harvard should take. Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles shrewdly provided a precedent when he bypassed the snail-paced Core Committee in approving the Humanities courses for Core credit. Two of the courses were immediately granted Literature and Arts A status, and one was deemed more suitable to fulfill the Moral Reasoning requirement. Paradoxically again, this dictatorial measure actually enhanced students’ freedom instead of diminishing...
...Mail We asked readers to check one of the boxes on our Aug. 28 cover to let us know how they feel about Hillary Clinton. In response, a blizzard of 4,539 covers blew back at us. That's a lot of snail mail in this digital age. The results...