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...forces assembled against print media scored a big scalp on Monday when Condé Nast announced that Gourmet magazine was finished. The 68-year-old foodie look book will close after the publication of its November issue, although the title will live on in books and on TV shows and some of its content will be folded into Epicurious.com...
...flow with the perceptions of nuclear threat. Since 2002, the Pentagon has pumped more than $60 billion into new antimissile missiles now on guard against North Korean launches in the Pacific. But the system--likened to hitting a bullet with a bullet--too often fails what are essentially open-book tests. That it could annihilate an actual warhead is still an article of faith...
...Fearful Symmetry is not a book of great emotional force, not the way Time Traveler's Wife was. It's marred by a wrenching plot twist that, to me, sails way beyond the bounds of plausibility. And there's ultimately something strangely toylike about the little world of Her Fearful Symmetry. Everything in it--the apartment, the cemetery, the two sets of twins, the crossword-composing, obsessive-compulsive classicist upstairs--is fashioned with such twiddly bespoke neatness, such fussy perfection, that the whole affair is like a tragedy performed by exquisite dolls: lovely and precious and lifeless. Only the spectral...
...these critics, Philip Delves Broughton who is a 2006 graduate of HBS, says that business school students find that their experience is more geared toward networking than educating competent managers. Broughton wrote a book which was recently published in 2008 that fleshed out his criticism of his experience at the school...
...editor.“My only hesitation coming here was that I remember Sanders Theater from taking Ec 10 in this room,” Kristof said, drawing laughter from audience members.Kristof, whose research regarding the social injustice women face in East Asian countries is chronicled in his new book “Half the Sky.” He urged audience members to partake in “a cause larger than ourselves.”“Helping people is harder than it looks,” Kristof said. “At the same time, it?...