Showing posts with label Profiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Profiles. Show all posts
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Holbrooke the Investment Banker

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Mr. Holbrooke also made millions as an investment banker on Wall Street. In the early 1980s, he was a co-founder of a Washington consulting ...
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Effective Habits of Ernest Gellner - 'cold intellectual honesty'

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A review of another Gellner biography ; In common with so many other émigrés, Gellner served in the war (in his case in a Czechoslovak arm...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Artist of the Day- Hopper

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Edward Hopper via the elegant and cool blog of Michele Roohani
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Effective Habits of a Clinical Psychologist

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" Look for grey areas even when they don't exist, work as hard as you can but remember that luck has a large part to do with your...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency

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“ Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind .”-...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Thomas Ricks want to know Worst War Memoir Ever

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Thomas Ricks a reviews War Memoir of General Mark W. Clark and doesn't like it; First question: Is there a relationship between the...
Monday, July 5, 2010

Advice from Spielberg - Art as Inspiration

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“I hung the painting over my desk,” Mr. Spielberg recalled. “ It was my deblocker. Whenever I hit a wall or couldn’t figure out where a stor...
Sunday, July 4, 2010

Houses of Economists- Carmen M. Reinhart

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Rogoff and Carmen at Carmen's house After much hand-wringing, he decided to return to the United States to attend Yale, which overlo...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Artist of the Day- Tsilli Pines

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According to Pines , the piece she created for this issue of the magazine, above, titled, " Corporations ," isn't just about t...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

Art podcast of the Day- Edvard Munch

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From BBCs In Our Time ; First exhibited in 1893 in Berlin, The Scream was the culmination of Munch's magnum opus, a series of paintings...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Random Artists

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Source: NYT Andresen, Charles ; I stumbled upon my method of “throw painting” in 1987 while still a student of figurative art. Plopping vari...
Friday, March 5, 2010

I'm Winston Wolfe. I solve problems.

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Even Presidents' needs cleaners- public management lessons from Pulp Fiction. In his memoir Speech-less, Matt Latimer , a speechwriter f...

The Revenge of the Artist

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Ion Barladeanu ; "I feel as if I have been born again," he said, as some of France's leading collectors and curators jostled f...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

One Author to read 2010- Orhan Pamuk

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Pamuk’s appeal has not been lost on politicians. Daniel Cohn-Bendit has credited Pamuk with helping him to ‘understand the importance of Tur...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Using Obituaries in Teaching- The Rain Man is dead!

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Kim Peek possesses one of the most extraordinary memories ever recorded. Until we can explain his abilities, we cannot pretend to understand...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

You can’t build a country if you’re not thinking beyond your own lifetime

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Mr. Ali is an institution in Pakistan. He has started some of the country’s most successful companies. But perhaps his most important contri...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Weekend reading

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Carl Jung and The Holy Grail of the Unconscious ; Some people feel that nobody should read the book, and some feel that everybody should rea...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Freeman Dyson profile

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Among Dyson’s gifts is interpretive clarity, a penetrating ability to grasp the method and significance of what many kinds of scientists do...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

'Eliot Spitzer- Corrupt Psycho'

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That's how Roger Stone described him (see previous post). Some famous quotes of Eliot Spitzer; shouted at Republican minority leader Jam...
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