Word: transformative
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...those who can’t stop watching Kenneth Lonergan’s brilliant film You Can Count on Me, head to the Ex Dec. 5-7 for Lonergan’s Waverly Gallery. Director Rebecca Kastleman ’05 will transform the Ex into a site of intimate family life in this delicate and personal play about one man’s reconstruction of his past and his struggles with identity. Centered around the man’s grandmother’s final days in her East Village art gallery, Waverly is a refreshingly honest and complex piece...
...build a $2 billion coal-liquefaction plant in Inner Mongolia. The heart of this new technology is a gel-based nanoscale catalyst that improves the efficiency of coal conversion and reduces the cost of producing clean transportation fuels. If the technology lives up to its promise and can economically transform coal into diesel fuel and gasoline, coal-rich countries such as the U.S., China and Germany could depend far less on imported oil. At the same time, acid-rain pollution would be reduced because the liquefaction strips coal of harmful sulfur. Given current world oil prices (about...
...behind--was ended that day. A whole generation will grow up with this as its most formative experience--a whole younger generation that knows that there actually is a right and a wrong, and that neutrality is no longer an option. That generational power has only just begun to transform the culture. In decades' time, we will look back and see what a difference it made...
...largest democracy took a great leap forward last week when Indonesia's highest legislative body agreed to sweeping constitutional reforms, paving the way for direct presidential elections in 2004. The fractious People's Consultative Assembly, a holdover from the three-decade rule of deposed President Suharto, also agreed to transform itself into a bicameral body similar to the United States Congress. "This is historical," enthuses political analyst and columnist Bara Hasibuan. "For the first time, we'll be using a presidential system where all branches are equal. There will now be a separation of power rather than a division...
...turn of Thomas Middelhoff, chief executive of the German media giant Bertelsmann. He was so fond of the U.S. entrepreneurial culture that he began calling himself an "American with a German passport." But his plan to transform the firm from an insular private company to a stock market star ended up vexing the family that owns it. Last week, Middelhoff was out. "He was a real wheeler-dealer at a time when we're in a back-to-basics market," said Nick Bell, media analyst at Bear Stearns in London. "I think he was pushing too fast...