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...modern times, fires break out roughly two times every decade at the White House. The last real bonfire was way back in 1929 on Christmas Eve, when the West Wing was gutted by a massive conflagration. President Herbert Hoover had to leave his Christmas party to oversee the removal of important papers from the Oval Office. (But the Marine Band played on, and the First lady kept the party going.) The doozy, of course, was in 1814, when the invading Brits set the White House on fire. (Dolley Madison had to smuggle out the famous Gilbert Stuart portrait of George...
...seminal '70s TV films Duel (Steven Spielberg's first feature) and The Night Stalker and the '90s films What Dreams May Come and Stir of Echoes, based on his novels. Some of Matheson's TV fables - the Twilight Zone story about the gremlin on the airplane wing, the Trilogy of Terror jape about a Zuni fetish doll chasing Karen Black around her apartment - linger at the base of many a viewer's spine, three or four decades after they were first aired. Credit those residual shivers to a nonchalant, nonpareil master of the creep...
Adding a new wing to a neoclassical museum, Holl devised a spectacular update on classicism: an irregular series of volumes that cascade down the museum's lawn and glow from within. The effect against the nighttime sky is nothing short of magical...
Those younger employees will be the ones to keep Infosys' principles going even when the five remaining founders retire, so Infosys also asks senior managers each to take half a dozen up-and-comers under their wing. "I firmly believe that a democracy will always avoid a disaster," Murthy says. But those values have to be taught. "It may not be the quickest way to do things in the world," Murthy adds, "but you'll never see a famine in a democracy." Infosys managers hope that what holds true for nations can also apply in the corporate world...
...fact: In the Venezuelan example, even while certain criticisms of Chavez’s agenda can be important, we must avoid the tendentious temptation to explain away the “Bolivarian Revolution” in the rash, simplistic, and altogether-too-tired narratives of “left-wing populism” or “authoritarian socialism.” The reality remains that Chavez’s project of 21st century socialism is a complicated affair, but one with which—today—progressives must stand in critical solidarity. This requires two things.First, we must...