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Tony Conrad ’60 is an acclaimed and multitalented filmmaker, composer, and conceptual artist. Last weekend, the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) welcomed Conrad in person to screen a selection of his films, and his eclecticism was readily apparent. His unconventional and experimental approach to filmmaking—which...
But that was before a row within the government exploded Wednesday, when junior environment Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet to call fellow conservatives "an army of cowards" after a cock-up involving controversial legislation on genetically modified crops. Kosciusko-Morizet told Le Monde that her immediate boss, Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo...
This is not a tale of bureaucratic bungling. It's just evidence that compiling a reliable measure of all the economic activity in a country as big as this one is hard. Which is something to consider whenever you hear somebody arguing that GDP ought to be shelved in favor...
The country's main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, has called for Burmese voters to reject the draft. But given that Burma's generals (who prefer to call their country Myanmar) rejected a plea by the United Nations to allow international monitoring of the referendum, no outside observer...
In the mid-'90s, Republicans talked a lot about eliminating Cabinet agencies like Energy, Education and HUD, but big government is extraordinarily resilient, and these days there's not much talk about eliminating anything. But even if streamlining government is a political non-starter, streamlining the Cabinet could be relatively...