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...accentuates this sense of dislocation by taking most of his pictures in those crepuscular moments when Shanghai reveals its private self. Behind the blinding economic razzle-dazzle and throngs of striving entrepreneurs, the city is defined by its intimate sense of neighborhood, what Girard calls its "lived-in-ness." Walk Shanghai's alleyways at night and inhale the smell of braised pork wafting out of a communal kitchen, hear the slap of a shuttlecock struck by a pajama-clad girl, catch a glimpse of a chandelier in a threadbare bedroom-once part of a ballroom in some silk merchant...
...fact that we are discussing race is inspiring. I didn't care what happened to him. What he said was hurtful: the difference between those words coming out of a rapper's mouth and his mouth is that when a rapper says them, they are not racial. If I walk up to a black man on the street and say "nigger" with a blank expression, nine times out of 10 he would hug me. That is a fact...
...that complicates air travel. "It's not like any other business I know," says Grinstein. Selling an airline ticket is "more like trying to figure out a prisoner's dilemma than it is about trying to sell a can of paint." (Guess who's the prisoner?) Compare JetBlue's walk-up fares with Delta's advance-purchase fares, he says, and you'll see little difference. Still, demand is unusually high this year, meaning travelers should expect a summer of shoulder-to-shoulder flying. "If people are complaining, they're also buying tickets," he says...
...aftermath of Kleinfeld's decision to walk, Siemens' stock tanked. But Kleinfeld's has risen. He was hoping that three to five years down the road, people would look back and say Siemens had a problem but used it as an opportunity to become totally transparent and remodel the company for the epic infrastructure build-out that is unfolding around the world. It may still happen, but Kleinfeld's view of his handiwork will probably be that of a spectator...
...you’re brave enough to make the walk to the barren land north of Annenberg, I’d suggest making a trip to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The museum is filled with interesting pieces collected by Harvard researchers of yore, back when the museum used to engage in measuring the skulls of different peoples to determine the evolution of each race...