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Amid all the anxiety out there, if there's a theme to the special Ideas issue this year, it's renewal. This is not false hope or irrational optimism but the power of ideas and innovation to transform the world and us. A decrepit transport system becomes the nerves of a new, greener network. A 16th century sect inspires a new generation of believers. The power of ideas is to make old, broken things work in fresh new ways. In fact, transformation is at the heart of what is going on in America and around the world...
...It’s just delightful she’s decided to come,” said Venky. “I am really happy she will be succeeding me as Dean.”Venky, who stepped down as dean last year after spearheading an effort to transform SEAS from a division to a school, said in an interview last year that the next phase of SEAS—turning it into a “model engineering school aimed at the broadly educated”—would be a “ten year...
...their husbands’ careers, can achieve greater financial security for their families than with two incomes. Marketed to business savvy career women who desire a “slower-paced, more graceful, family oriented life,” Basham’s book outlines a plan wherein wives transform into indispensable career partners for their husbands by mentoring, advising, and pushing them to get ahead...
...class artists like Ma, Morrison, and dancer Damian Woetzel, “Witness” aimed to verify the powerful outcome of a union between the realities of the human condition and the creative, artistic manifestations of a living, aspiring soul, in addition to the potential of art to transform human relations.Woetzel, introduced by Bhabha as “one of America’s premier dancers, and the only one with a degree from the Kennedy School,” was perhaps the manifestation of the spirit behind the ambitious evening. A beloved former principal dancer with...
...voters for pols like Diaz-Balart and Ros-Lehtinen - a source that may only grow stronger as the ties between the Castros and Chávez grow warmer. Indeed, soon after he was first elected, the Venezuelan President asked then Cuban leader Fidel Castro for advice on how to transform his country into a socialist state for the 21st century. Chávez also began to refer to Castro as his "father." (Fidel, 82 and ailing, has since ceded power to his younger brother Raúl.) Today, oil-rich Venezuela sends Cuba discounted crude in exchange for doctors...