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...what's the big rush? "Every time we speed up the time it takes to complete an unimportant task," he says, "we create the possibility of more time to spend doing what we feel is significant--whether it's building a business or watching the sunset." In other words, rush around all day and you might save up enough time to smell the roses. Well, maybe. But a true speed freak will probably use the extra time to squeeze out a few more e-mail messages. Still, Poscente's message of picking up the pace and enjoying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...dignity) and some more particular (about living up to the best in German history). None of these arguments would necessarily persuade the Nazi, but we can’t know until we try.11.FM: Could you tell Voldemort that the Dark Arts are wrong?MJS: That would be a hopeless task, even for a philosopher.12.FM: You’ve taught “Justice” to well over a 10,000 people, many of whom are or soon will be pretty influential. What if your theories are wrong and there are 10,000 people powerful walking around the world with...

Author: By Sam Teller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Q's with Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

This mundane and continuous task contrasts strikingly with the emotional heaviness of the setting and the constant threat of a sudden end to Max and Horst’s lives...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Bent’ Tells a Wrenching Tale | 10/8/2007 | See Source »

...provide you cineastes out there with quality material for cocktail party conversation, Deep Focus will feature interviews, commentaries, and analyses, all offering further insights into current films still playing in theaters. We hope you enjoy it. —The Arts Board It’s no easy task to make a movie musical resemble real life. But according to Jim Sturgess, star of the Beatles-infused, Julie Taymor-directed film “Across the Universe,” it’s not impossible. In a phone interview with The Crimson, Sturgess said the cast had a unique...

Author: By Benjamin C. Burns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DEEPFOCUS: Jim Sturgess | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...turn away from the pretensions of “save-the-world” politicking is—at its core—a revolt against a particularly pernicious Enlightenment ideal, which assigned the task of social change to the “best and the brightest”. As Immanuel Wallerstein has argued, because thinkers in that tradition believed that rational thought promised progress, “it followed that normal political change ought to follow the path indicated by those who were most rational—that is, most educated, most skilled, therefore most wise...

Author: By Adaner Usmani | Title: Against Leadership | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

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