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...Wherever he went and whomever he met, Roger Casement rarely failed to make a deep, lasting, highly favourable impression,” Goodman tells us. He quotes a fellow activist, Edmund Morel, recalling his first impressions of Casement: “I saw before me a man, my own height, very lithe and sinewy... A long lean, swarthy Vandyke type of face, graven with power and withal of great gentleness.” Casement emerges as a brave and sensitive campaigner with a strong sense of moral purpose, dogged in his pursuit of Arana, who, having driven out all competition...
BILL WATTERSON, reclusive creator of the popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, explaining in his first interview since 1989 why he stopped drawing the strip at the height of its popularity...
...North America. Homeless people and drug addicts hole up in back alleys; one church alone shelters 300 people on any given night. The neighborhood also hosts the first supervised heroin-injection location in North America. "For the city to let that occur while building the Village - that's the height of irresponsibility," says Shaw. Vancouver has set aside 250 of the 1,100 Village units for low-income residents, though some people fear that the city will be forced to put even those on the market to refill its coffers. (Watch a video on how ski jumpers train...
Ironically, despite their being at a firm that needed a lifeline at the height of the financial crisis, many former Merrill Lynch executives have ended up in what most of us would consider to be lucrative jobs. Last June, top Merrill Lynch investment banker George Young was hired by Lazard to be a vice chairman of its U.S. investment bank. Lazard paid its employees an average of $505,000 in 2009, slightly more than Goldman Sachs. Young, most likely, got considerably more. Thain, for his new job, will be getting an annual salary of $6 million, of which...
...conservative approach extends to the performance space in creative ways. Dunster Dining Hall provides an unforgiving stage: sound gets trapped in pockets, the ceiling height forces an odd lighting setup, and the dark wood paneling renders everything strangely somber. But the company manages to employ the staid dignity of the room to reinforce the moral severity of the town elders. At one point, they even co-opt one of the chandeliers—by far the most physically obtrusive element of the space—as a prop...