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? His influence as a business historian was such that some analysts refer to the period before Alfred Chandler published his works as "B.C." The "dean of management theory" was known for his accounts of how General Motors and other giant corporations were developed. He won a Pulitzer Prize for...
It's been decades since Hopper was miscategorized as an American Scene painter, the long-limbed, tight-lipped yeoman of Washington Square who distilled the essence of coastal New England and the odd corners of Manhattan. The strange solitude in his pictures, which has nothing to do with the regional...
A group of academic and non-profit institutions—including Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the MacArthur Foundation—will announce the launch of a major online peer-reviewed database of species today. The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), a project long supported by Harvard’s...
The press release notes a $10 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and $2.5 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the draft description estimates EOL's five-year operating budget at $40 million.
Huck finally does make it into the World Series, where, at last, he commits what may be the first selfless act of his life, but before we get there, a lot of poker gets played and that's the movie's other great strength. Poker, obviously and uniquely, is a...