Word: watchfulness
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...Subscribe now and save $84 on the cover price!) And only 3% of its copies were newsstand sales, so it's not like that was a big business anyway. Sandow Media Corp., which bought Worth last year, also publishes Luxe (high-end design), True Beauty (high-end cosmetics) and Watch Journal (high-end wristwear). So the company probably feels it has a good read on the pulse of the prosperous...
...Ironically, events in Somalia last week went quite well from the official U.S. viewpoint. True, it was grating to watch warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, whom American soldiers had died trying to capture, hold a press conference with six reporters. Looking dapper in a blue pinstripe shirt and red polka-dot tie and sporting a gold-tipped cane, Aidid congratulated the U.S. on having ''decided to address its past mistakes'' -- meaning its attempts to take him prisoner. The whole point of the U.S. policy shift, however, was to call off the hunt for Aidid, which was widely blamed for converting what...
...world of uncertainty, we can often turn to sport as our international language. The universality of watching and appreciating, in its simplest terms, a game between two opposing forces can bring us together to create a common ground transcending ideology, nationality, and race.It is a theory put to the test in the sometimes insular, often elaborate, yet always enthralling web of sport in America.Two years ago, I forsook the rural pleasantries of my sleepy town in northeast Scotland to embark on a grand journey to Harvard. Shuffling restlessly in my economy class seat thousands of feet above the Atlantic Ocean...
...Saturday night, the Harvard Dance Program performed a collection a dances honoring the centennial of the Ballet Russes in “Viewpointe 9: Rite of Passage.” The pieces, all inspired by the works associated with the Ballet Russes era, were expertly executed and enjoyable to watch. However, what the performance lacked was the true essence of the Ballet Russes—a sense of innovation and originality that pushes the limits of what ballet can be and inspires new understanding of artistic creation.The four vastly different dances were choreographed by various professionals and undergraduate students...
...human rights groups have questioned the tactics employed to achieve Chechnya's much-vaunted "rebirth" and relative current stability. "The legacy [of the counterterrorist operation] is one of absolute impunity for blatant human rights abuses, such as disappearances, murder and torture," says Tatyana Lokshina, a researcher for Human Rights Watch speaking by phone from Chechnya. Human Rights Watch estimates there have been 5,000 disappearances since...