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...children of the baby boomers. The grandchildren of the Great Generation. The great-grandchildren of the—um—parents of the Great Generation. We are the generation after Generations X and Y, respectively. But without these qualifiers, we are nothing. We have no name for our team, and without a given moniker, how are we supposed to unite 20 years from now and reminisce about the good old days? For the sake of a name, how about we call ourselves the Dolphins? That is a truly uplifting appellation, and easy to put on a t-shirt...
Former Chief Secretary of Hong Kong and Kennedy of School of Government (KSG) graduate, Donald Y. Tsang, became the acting Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China on March...
...came to welcome it?after all, the interlopers brought along some really cool stuff. Local artisans copied and reinterpreted foreign objects, and wealthy Chinese connoisseurs were entombed with their collections so that they could continue to enjoy them even in the afterlife. Those that have surfaced, writes James C. Y. Watt, who curated the exhibit for its first run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last fall, reveal "a wondrous world born of an ancient civilization and transformed by the acceptance of the many cultures that came into its orbit...
...little rummage shop which he runs for charity came a woman, two months ago, who mysteriously whispered for him to meet her a few days later in the Tuckahoe, N. Y. railway station. Thither went Mr. Condon on the appointed day, accompanied by Al Reich, onetime pugilist. There the woman told him to go home and await a letter. When the letter came it contained an enclosure for Col. Lindbergh. Mr. Condon read the enclosure over the telephone to Col. Lindbergh who said he recognized the identifying '"token." Under the authorship of Mr. Condon there began a series of more...
However, some of the new twists on old genres are vibrant enough to make the project worthwhile. Perhaps predictably, these stories are from the best-known creators—including Brian K. Vaughan (Ex Machina and Y: The Last Man), bestselling novelist Glen David Gould (Carter Beats the Devil) and legendary graphic novel creator Will Eisner (A Contract With God), whose last story before his recent death recounts a meeting between The Escapist and Eisner’s own The Spirit...