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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Daniel T. Willingham for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Anne van den Boogaard * *…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Pamela Meyer for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * A lack of trust between colleagues and…
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Here is an especially interesting article by Elizabeth C. Economy, featured by the website of the Council on Foreign Relations. * * * A friend recently dropped off a hot-off-the-press copy of Xi Jinping: The Goverance of China. It is…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Cal Newport for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Illustration of two tin cans connected with a…
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The International Movie Database (IMDb) remains the best single source for information about filmmaking and those who create them. I urge you to check it out. For example, here is a portion of the information IMDb provides about Charlie Chaplin. …
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Louis Menand, published by The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for a free newsletter, and obtain information about various subscription rates, please click here.…
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April 23 is William Shakespeare‘s birthday (in 1564) and probably the day on which he died in 1616. FYI, the author of Don Quixote, Miguel Cervantes, also died on the same day. Here are some interesting facts about Shakespeare that…
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Will Rogers (in full William Penn Adair Rogers) was born November 4, 1879, Cherokee Territory, U.S. [near present-day Claremore, Oklahoma] and died August 15, 1935, near Point Barrow, Alaska). He was an immensely popular American entertainer, radio personality, film actor,…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an obituary by Robert D. McFadden about a very special person, Edward Koren, one of The New Yorker‘s most talented artists. * * * For six decades in The New Yorker and elsewhere, his…
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The Movie Lover: My life as a film critic
Here is a brief excerpt from a “classic” New Yorker article, written by Pauline Kael, and first published in its March 13, 1994, issue. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription rates, please click here. Photo…
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