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Postscript: I'm witnessing the MBA scene firsthand this year as a second-year MBA fellowship student at the Columbia Business School. Even as my classmates relish their classes and the study-hard, play-hard nature of school, some sound concerned when the subject turns to their job hunt. At the Harvard Business School, a second-year MBA candidate recently posted a blog entry poking fun at the euphemisms business school students use to explain why one internship or another hasn't yielded a full-time offer. What they say is "There wasn't a cultural fit," or "I wouldn...
...seen this movie before, and it's not a happy one. Japan's financial sector imploded in the 1990s as bubbles in real estate and stock prices (sound familiar?) burst. Eventually, Japan's central bank drove interest rates to near zero to stimulate the economy. But it was, as the economists say, "pushing on a string." Banks were reluctant to lend because they needed to hoard capital to repair their balance sheets - just as they need to do now in the U.S. Economic growth slowed, and demand for the credit that was available diminished. The result was Japan's infamous...
...scenes have been gushed over by excited commentators, eager to cite them as evidence of China's changing mores. But they are staid in comparison to that created by a new breed of artists, who eschew conventional guitar-based music in favor of baffling electronica, extreme noise and found sound...
...ambassador for the chinese avant-garde, Cosmic Shenggy tours around Europe when not studying philosophy and sound engineering at university in London. She counts among her performance highlights a 2007 appearance at Barcelona's music and multimedia festival, Sonar, as well as a tour with German ensemble Einstürzende Neubauten, demigods of the sonic-art world...
...massages. As a neurosurgeon, I've never been completely convinced that the science behind them is all that sound. Yet there's no denying that they're popular - particularly among baby boomers and others who try to get active and stay fit with bodies that seem to grow achier all the time. But increasingly, research is showing that all those boomers may be onto something - that there are solid reasons for just about everyone to consider getting a good rubdown...