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...process that started, slowly, under Loyrette's predecessor, Pierre Rosenberg, in the 1990s, when the government changed the Louvre's official status and gave it some limited autonomy. Loyrette and Selles have taken that opening and gone further, wresting management of the museum's finances and staff from government bureaucrats and, in exchange, signing a deal with the Culture Ministry that commits it to meet certain performance targets. In the past, the Louvre didn't even get the receipts of its ticket sales - instead, the money was put in a pot and divided up among all French museums. "We used...
...launched a pilot project Monday to supply four business and economics textbooks online at no charge to several hundred undergraduates on at least 15 campuses nationwide. By giving away content through the Web, Flat World aims to upend the $5.5 billion textbook industry. "Nobody's satisfied with the status quo. Students, faculty, authors - their feelings all range from ambivalent to extremely unhappy," says Flat World founder Eric Frank, a former executive at Prentice Hall, the nation's largest textbook publisher. "Why not try something different...
...exactly how widespread Buddhist practice has become. About 1.7% of India's population, or 170 million people, were counted as Buddhist in the 2001 census, but the vast majority are the descendants of Dalits, who converted to Buddhism en masse in the 1950s as a reaction against their low status in the Hindu caste hierarchy. It was an inspiring political revolution, led by the great Dalit activist B.R. Ambedkar, but its success gave contemporary Buddhism in India the stigma of a lower-caste movement. That's changed with this recent move toward the faith among the élite. Sarao estimates...
...Taliban who appear to be growing stronger and whose attacks are believed to be shedding more coalition blood. Yet the ISAF contends that the Taliban are in no position to overturn the status quo. "There's no way that they'll ever get back into power here," says Royal Navy Captain Mike Finney, the ISAF's spokesman, who contends that the coalition's mission is expanding and that it is doing more in more places; if they're taking more casualties, they're inflicting more as well. "The Taliban knows they'll never take this country back," Finney says. "They...
...mere designation as a World Heritage site, of course, can be a boon: when the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, England, was accorded World Heritage Status in 1986, says Stuart Smith, a former director of the museum there, "People suddenly realized they were living in an incredible site. They started to appreciate it and respect...