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...Slowly, the camera pans out from the stage and reveals Kanye West leading the Central State University marching band in a beautiful performance of “Jesus Walks.” The rendition has all the class, emotion, history and feeling West never could eke out of that soul jam, no matter how many times he filmed the video.And this song is just one of the many, many genuinely great moments in Michel Gondry’s ludicrously entertaining new documentary “Dave Chappelle’s Block Party.”The movie is a record...
...sense of stability and security it gave to people's lives. And economic security provides people with a sense of optimism. It's not the only thing in life but it's quite important. See, it's not really within the writ of government to condition the human soul. That is for individuals, according to their values...
...just published a book titled Our Underachieving Colleges, which follows a similarly downbeat book in 2003. One of the Harvard deans pushed out by Summers has a book about the university coming out soon called Excellence Without a Soul. The new book by former Princeton president Harold Shapiro is called A Larger Sense of Purpose--implying that universities don't have one. Why the pessimism about institutions that would seem to be thriving? The success of big universities and their malaise are connected. They serve an array of constituencies that want--and get--profoundly different things from them...
...defector now living in Seoul, wrote a harrowing memoir (The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag) about his imprisonment there as a young boy. The book was translated into English, and Kang ended up in Washington last year chatting about his incarceration with an unexpected soul mate: U.S. President George W. Bush...
...Tokyo - and two weeks in Paris, Ghosn says he gets "the best of both worlds." The rest of his time is mostly spent overseeing Nissan business in the U.S. - a market to which he won't be taking Renault "until we can dedicate all our mind, heart, guts and soul - and even then not be assured of success." Almost everything about his plan is a gamble. Waiting until 2009 for full results means that the market may be dominated by "disappointing business news that Ghosn himself has warned of," says Christophe Laborde, auto-industry analyst for ING in Paris. That...