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...celebrated exploits are recast as frauds. The Long March? The authors contend that legendary battles along the way didn't actually occur and suggest Mao and his communist army survived the 6,000-mile ordeal only because his political rival, Chiang Kai-shek, decided to let them move unopposed. The 1949 declaration of the People's Republic? A bust, the authors argue, as a nervous Mao frequently resorted to awkward throat clearing and offered no ideas for benefiting China's people. His love for the peasants? Phony. "There is no sign that Mao derived from his peasant roots any social...
...really an incredible flop and pulled the plug on the entire 17-store operation. The closings, plus the stores' losses, totaled some $230 million and completely wiped out Tandy's profits for 1996. "Maybe," says retail analyst Lynn Detrick of Williams MacKay Jordan & Co. of Houston, "this does suggest that you can take it too far, that stores can be too big and inconvenient." What an incredible thought...
...paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures drawn from Harvard collections spans most of Degas’ life. Iconic Degas images of ballet dancers and women bathing are paired with informal portraits of Degas’ family members and an abstract landscape he painted late in his career.Wolohojian did not suggest a specific path viewers should take through the three modest-sized rooms of the exhibit; navigating the gallery chronologically or thematically is not necessary. What is important is that viewers appreciate Degas’ artistic fusion—the way images and techniques in his work recur, evolve, and interact.The exhibit...
...University matched donations from students, faculty, and staff up to $100. Harvard ended up matching $245,877 of donations to a variety of charities. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the University again offered to match donations. Although the exact numbers have yet to be released, preliminary indications suggest that donations will exceed the amount for the tsunami relief effort. Offering a donation matching program after these two catastrophes was the right thing for the University to do. Although Harvard’s primary mission is educational and academic, Harvard is also a community of nearly...
...self-declared best and brightest, I would suggest that we have a duty to master the baser instincts of our nature—including rising above the inevitable impulse to automatically declare ourselves better than some group of “outsiders.” Don’t castigate those with whom you are not familiar, for rather than sounding enlightened and intelligent, you come across as precisely the things you accuse others of being: stupid, unworthy, and, worst of all, really, really, annoying...