Friday, June 29, 2012

Nora Ephron

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In an era in which Hollywood still deals with the lack of woman as writers, producers and directors, Nora Ephron was a triple threat. Her...
Monday, June 25, 2012

There must be better way to do this...

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Modern life has seen to it that almost everything has been subject to a kind of creative destruction. We've talked many times about the...
Friday, June 22, 2012

It's a bird...It's a plane, It's.......

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The character of Superman made his first appearance in June of 1938, some 75 years ago. The character touched a nerve in the hunger for h...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

The truth about lying

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When congressman Joe Wilson stood up during a speech by President Obama and said, “you lie,” he could have been talking to all of us. Whil...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Sam the banana man

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Balzac said that "behind every great fortune, there is a great crime." For some fortunes, there is more than one. Little have ...
Monday, June 18, 2012

The Man Who Changed The Way We Eat

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Restaurant reviews, foodies and food criticism have all become a major part of the culture. I sit here writing this, at the epicenter of ...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

America the Philosophical???

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Judging by most of the political discourse, reality television, TMZ, tabloids newspapers and magazine and some social networking, it migh...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

An Extraordinary Father and Son

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There is a wonderful quote about travel from TS Eliot who said that "we shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our explori...
Monday, June 11, 2012

The real digital divide

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If you watch movies or read novels or simply understand the drama that is the human condition, you know that human behavior is often shrou...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The real Dark Arts

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From Mati Hari, to Nathan Hale, to Herbert Philbrick; each is a chapter in the pantheon of espionage. Each had what George Smiley called ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Reinvent or Die

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It may not be possible to predict the future, but one sure way to see that future, is to invent it, or reinvent it. This is what companie...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The Candidate

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We are already in the midst of the Presidential political season. Where once labor day was the official start of our national poltical dr...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Is anybody in charge here?

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When we think of a globalization, we tend to think of a world more connected, more unified and more equal in terms its power politics. It’s...
Friday, May 18, 2012

The era of "Must See TV"

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It may be hard for young people to remember, but there was a time before 500 channels, before Hulu and itunes and Apple TV. A time when thr...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Retirement on the Line

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The recent recession has created a great reset in a many areas of our economy, particularly with respect to labor markets. Globalization,...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Exxon Mobile and American Power

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Perhaps the recent economic crises reminded us that corporations and business matter a lot. Over many decades we’ve seen the balance of p...
Monday, May 14, 2012

The Moral Limits of Markets

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On Sunday, Tom Friedman's column talked about a new book by Harvard Professor Michael Sandel . In it, he looks at our cynicism and gro...