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...taming of Yahoo!'s many-headed beast echoes the task Semel took on after arriving in 2001. He trimmed the 44 business units to four, and the company rededicated itself to search by developing a new engine and buying Overture, which pioneered search ads. Yahoo!'s stock price nearly tripled in Semel's first three years, but its search tools still trailed Google...
...search for the lost mural. I can't help thinking of Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, and, indeed, Seracini is the only real-life character mentioned in the book, as the man who "unveiled the unsettling truth" about Leonardo. Seracini has devoted 30 years to the task, interpreting ancient diaries and city records to try to locate the spot where the uncompleted masterpiece was painted. He has proof, he says, that Giorgio Vasari, the artist who renovated this hall in 1563 and painted the mural that covers it today, was an admirer of Leonardo...
Seracini may be serious about his task, but he clearly relishes the spice of the mystery. After we stand together for 20 minutes in the center of the sprawling sala, Seracini looks at me with a twinkle in his eye. "I know I haven't told you where it is yet," he says. He then indicates a 250-sq.-ft. area on the eastern stretch of the Vasari mural, behind which, he asserts, lies the masterpiece. Having looked at sketches and copies of Anghiari, I strain to tap into an inner X-ray to see through the mural...
...Administration wishes it to be. Restoring U.S. prestige will involve the kind of trade-offs between interests and ideals that she and Bush have so far been reluctant to make--but that are the stock-in-trade of successful U.S. diplomacy. Given the limited time available for the task ahead, it's admirable that Rice still exudes optimism. Asked whether this is an interesting time to be Secretary of State, she laughs. "No better moment," she says. Now she needs to seize...
...selected as president, Kagan’s challenge would be to create the same sort of environment within the larger university that she has fostered at the Law School—no small task given the enormity and number of competing interests that the university president faces...