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...they need to, considering how wide their audience and influence were. "At one time comics were genuinely a mass medium," Spiegelman said, "and didn't have to seek approval form the cultural institutions that exist. As that has changed, comics have had to reinvent themselves or die." Reinvent they did, and in the process reinvented the publishing business. As artist Raymond Pettibon puts in in the exhibition catalog: "Comics, the jilted suitor of the high airs art world, come back as the savior of the book industry in the form of the graphic novel...
...with Microsoft, which lags in search. Either deal would help Yahoo! take on Google more aggressively. One thing that won't change: the quirky Yahoo! culture. Early on, founders Jerry Yang and David Filo set up a free cappuccino bar for employees and have followed up with annual company-wide gifts, ranging from MP3 players to sleeping bags. Google has topped the coffee bar with free meals and a host of perks. But in Yahoo!'s case, staying caffeinated and hungry might not be a bad idea...
That's a grim assessment, since the threats to international order are bigger today than at any other time since the end of the cold war. The most immediate source of instability emanates from Iraq, where the country's civil war risks igniting a region-wide conflict. Across swaths of the greater Middle East--from Lebanon and the Palestinian territories to Afghanistan and Pakistan--armed militants are undermining the authority of U.S. allies. Anti-U.S. regimes in Iran and North Korea have accelerated their pursuit of atomic arsenals. In Africa, genocide, poverty and disease threaten the survival of millions...
...governing board did just that recently by taking a major step forward in the development of interdisciplinary study at Harvard. The Corporation announced that it will write a check for $50 million for interdisciplinary science research and create the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC), a new University-wide standing committee that will oversee the initiative. Creating and funding a cross-disciplinary authority marks an innovative and commendable change in Harvard’s approach to science, which has traditionally been governed by insular and competing departments.The decision to create HUSEC is in line with recommendations made...
...have a political consensus about what we can accomplish together, because there will be a tremendous amount of pressure from those who don't want to change the system as we know it, because they do well by it. So we have to go into this with our eyes wide open and with sufficient political will to be able to overcome the opposition...