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...PHOTOGRAPHER'S LIFE ANNIE LEIBOVITZ Clever though they may be, Leibovitz's celebrity portraits can sometimes remind you of an armored car: big, heavyset and built for serious business. In this book of pictures taken from 1990 to 2005, the celebrity pics, with their industrial-strength charm, are back--the naked and pregnant Demi Moore, Brad Pitt languishing on an orange bedspread--but there are informal family shots as well, like one of her brother and father, below, and many pictures of her longtime beloved, the writer Susan Sontag, even as the ailing Sontag ventures toward death. Leibovitz's unflinching...
...outsourced or automated--"put an enormous premium on creative and innovative skills, seeing patterns where other people see only chaos," says Marc Tucker, an author of the skills-commission report and president of the National Center on Education and the Economy. Traditionally that's been an American strength, but schools have become less daring in the back-to-basics climate of NCLB. Kids also must learn to think across disciplines, since that's where most new breakthroughs are made. It's interdisciplinary combinations--design and technology, mathematics and art--"that produce YouTube and Google," says Thomas Friedman, the best-selling...
...Coach Saretsky maintained that the nature of the Harvard Invitational makes it hard to get any indication of the team’s overall improvement, he said that certain notable individual performances were certainly a good sign. Specifically, “field events continue to be an area of strength on both the women’s and men’s teams,” he said. Ayers expressed similar optimism, adding that the team is “more promising than in the last couple of years.” With a new coach more focused on recruitment...
...Sheth said. “Especially for a freshman, it’s great to see him playing such smart squash.” “[The victories against Yale] give us a mental edge,” Sheth added. “They had their full strength while we did not, but we still beat them.” Booth finished 2-2 for the weekend, while DiSesa finished 1-3. “The winter break is coming up at a very good time for us,” Oren said...
...Some Iranian leaders and officials, including President Ahmadinejad, also believe that Iran now has the opportunity to deal with Washington from a position of strength, for the first time since the 1979 revolution. The sources say that this assessment is based on a perception that the U.S. is stuck in quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan, while Iran's influence in the region and throughout the Muslim world is expanding. These officials see further evidence of Iran's advantage in the difficulties the U.S. continues to encounter in winning support for U.N. tough sanctions over Iran's nuclear program. The sources...