Word: ghosts
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Workplace experts are only beginning to grasp the phenomenon. "In the information age, knowledge is critical to business--and it's the employee who owns it," says Hamilton Beazley, 58, chairman of the Strategic Leadership Group, a consultancy in Arlington, Va. Beazley coined the term ghost work--now catching on around the country--to describe the additional workload taken on by surviving employees, usually without their former colleagues' trove of knowledge. "It's as if they're suddenly asked to start speaking Greek," says Beazley. "It can be totally demoralizing and can cripple the individual as well as the organization...
Pinker synthesizes research in language, cognitive science and evolutionary psychology to produce a theory of human nature that repudiates long-standing doctrines such as the “blank slate,” “the noble savage” and “the ghost in the machine...
...Harvard Book Store, Murch is one of the great unknowns in the art world today. Besides editing the screen adaptation of Ondaatje’s novel The English Patient and winning multiple Oscars, Murch has worked on The Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Ghost...
...Subway collective might have chosen other films in this mood. Ng See-yuen?s 1982 ?Seeding of a Ghost? was a worthily loopy predecessor to ?Devil Fetus.? Wong Chang-yeung?s ?Holy Virgin vs. the Evil Dead? (1991) is up there with ?Eternal Evil of Asia? as a spiked cocktail of Taoism, terror and tits. ?Run and Kill,? which Billy Tang made between ?Dr. Lamb? and ?Red to Kill,? matches those films in deranged fury with its tale of a fat shlub (Kent Cheng) whose wife is killed, and child char-broiled, by every triad goon and psycho slaverer west...
...chosen so many exemplary horror films from the old days, so few today. The current crop all want to be ?The Ring? or its even paler Hong Kong knockoff, ?The Eye,? another big hit that is soon to be remade in Hollywood. Note to moguls: Forget the newer Asian ghost stories. Think about redoing ?Devil Fetus? with state-of-your-art special effects, or ?Red to Kill? with Benicio Del Toro as the doctor and Katie Holmes as the imperiled girl. And don?t worry about making it NC-17 - the video will...