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...program initiated in August allows anyone with a Cambridge public library card to attend Harvard's museum for free. Meg Howland, director of the art museums public education and visitor services says a steadily increasing flow of community members have been taking advantage of the option...
...Even so, a subtle change has come over Honolulu in the wake of Asia's ongoing economic worries. With the number of visitor arrivals from Japan still sagging below pre-crisis highs, Hawaii's all-important hospitality sector has been reaching out to more diverse markets?wooing international conferences with an impressive $350 million convention center, courting China's growing cadre of affluent travelers by opening a marketing office in Beijing, and seeking ever more extravagant ways to indulge the whims of dotcom millionaires from Seattle and the San Francisco Bay area...
...Gramscians and Tocquevillians. The Gramscians take their name from the 20th-century Marxist intellectual and politician Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937). As Fonte remarks: "Despite [Gramsci's] enormous influence on today's politics, he remains far less well-known to most Americans than does Tocqueville," the prescient young French visitor who figured out America so brilliantly a hundred years before Gramsci's death...
...said, promising to enlist the aid of some of "my buddies" from the outside world: Steve Case, Andy Grove and Michael Dell. Where Madeleine Albright was known to send big advance teams and require special foods and water when she traveled the world, Powell said, "I'm an easy visitor. I've got no food requirements, I like Holiday Inns." And where the organizational culture frowns on people who stop at quitting time, Powell declared he is not working weekends and said, "Anyone who is logging hours to impress me is wasting their time. If I call...
...lessons from tenured university faculty. Undergraduates serve as teachers' aides, and kids spend their summer vacations studying on the campus of a nearby college. When students graduate from the fifth grade, they get a handshake and a diploma from a university president. So it was understandable that when a visitor recently toured the school, a bespectacled third-grader asked, "Excuse me, Miss? Are you a professor...