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The Mongols were the sultans of siege. They'd take their time. Surround a city. Build belching, black-smoke bonfires and roast horses for dinner. Pound drums day and night and force their enemies to dream of death. Soon they'd erect a white tent - a signal to surrender now...
Inevitably The Waterfalls will be compared to The Gates, the magical Christo and Jeanne-Claude project that filled Central Park three years ago with hundreds of flowing curtains suspended from goal post supports. Both projects put aggressively human devices into a semi-natural setting - a city park, a city waterfront...
At first it might seem that the Circle Line boat would be the best way to experience The Waterfalls. I suspect that won't turn out to be true. Gliding past them on the boat is a passive experience, and will probably be a crowded one, a bit like trying...
It was worth every dime. Buffett is the most successful investor in history, yet he has reached that pinnacle while also being supremely ethical. As remarkable for his philanthropy as for his stock-picking, he's giving the bulk of his billions to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; likewise, the...
That will probably work. And if not? Maybe we'll see Gates return, a Nobel in his pocket, ready to wrestle with the Web once again.