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...such a thing were possible) that proved the models wrong - it was Hurricane Katrina. The damage caused by Katrina was off the charts: 275,000 houses were destroyed, 10 times the number flattened by 1992's Hurricane Andrew, then the worst storm to hit the U.S. The unexpected devastation wrought by Katrina (and the financial losses incurred by the insurance companies) plunged the industry into a reassessment of strategies and priorities that could aid the world's counterattack against global warming. The insurance business has long prided itself on taking a lead on social matters - as when, for example...
...changes wrought by Ward’s harmonica playing, as well as the presence of a full band (perhaps too full, with two drummers/percussionists) both live and on “Post-War,” didn’t unravel the intimacy of his words with overstuffed sound. While the solid backbeat dissolved the illusion that Ward’s songs were quiet confessions (except for the beautiful “I’ll Be Yr Bird,” which Ward performed in the encore before his band joined him), this did less to depersonalize the songs...
...Literature department–or maybe that’s just the cigarette smoke. Lit’s got a rep for being one of Harvard’s more esoteric concentrations, filled with artsy Advocate-ians and worldly European ex-pats who spend all day at the wrought-iron tables outside Boylston Hall, arguing about Kafka in a dozen foreign languages and smoking whatever’s at hand. But don’t stress—the passport and drug habits are all optional. Literature is for those who want to study the—surprise...
Global luxury has wrought billion-dollar businesses and dizzying amounts of dealmaking?which means that today's fashion stars aren't only those manufactured in schools like London's Central Saint Martins or New York City's Parsons. A whole new breed of fashion influencers are formed at hard-core business schools like Harvard, HEC, ESSEC and Bocconi where the syllabus doesn't include patternmaking but rather an altogether different kind of intangible skill set, namely the ability to manage intensely creative talent. Dior president Sidney Toledano, a graduate of the top French engineering school ECP, compares the structure...
...wasn?t just the brave men and women in uniform who helped New York and America transcend the evil wrought by the enemies of freedom that day. It was also the thousands of ordinary Americans who did the extraordinary - on the streets of Lower Manhattan, in the nation?s capital and in skies over Pennsylvania...