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Khoury even seems gleefully happy to revel in the mysteries surrounding the Templars. At one point he even has one of Chaykin’s co-workers quote Umberto Eco’s famous statement about the group, telling her that “a sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars...
PERFECTLY TURNED OUT in a chalk-stripe navy bespoke suit, Umberto Angeloni, chief executive of Brioni, is urbane, courteous and buttoned up. So it comes as a surprise when, after settling a visitor into a chair in his office, he suddenly begins to strip...
...page from their personal websites.—Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu.CREAM OF THE CROPThe world’s top 10 public intellectuals, chosen by voters in an online poll, with the number of votes received in parentheses.#1: Noam Chomsky (4,827) #2: Umberto Eco (2,464) #3: Richard Dawkins (2,188) #4: Vaclav Havel (1,990) #5: Christopher Hitchens (1,844)#6: Paul Krugman (1,746) #7: Jurgen Habermas (1,639) #8: Amartya Sen (1,590) #9: Jared Diamond (1,499) #10: Salman Rushdie (1,468) Harvard’s BESTHarvard...
...Remembering is a labor, not a luxury,” Umberto Eco admonishes...
...early 1980s. People whose business it is to foresee what books the public will buy were stumped; who would have predicted blockbusterdom for an abstruse murder mystery set in a 14th century monastery and written by an Italian professor of semiotics? Experts could console themselves with the thought that Umberto Eco's worldwide triumph was a once-in-a-lifetime aberration. Now, even that cold comfort seems endangered. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is about to hit the English-speaking world after a dazzling debut in Europe. The original German-language edition of this novel sold more than...