Dance Review | ‘Electrolux’ : By GIA KOURLAS
Dance New Amsterdam was smart to name Laura Peterson as one of its 2007-8 artists in residence: as a set designer, she is a problem solver. This theater has flaws, notably the six columns planted firmly on the stage, along with the sad fact that the seats aren’t […]
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By BRAD STONE
SAN FRANCISCO — Compared with other forms of human interaction, online social networking is really not all that social.
People visit each other’s MySpace pages and Facebook profiles at various hours of the day, posting messages and sending e-mail back and forth across the digital void. It’s like an endless party where everybody shows […]
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E-Commerce Report : By BOB TEDESCHI
THE e-commerce bandwagon bypassed millions of carpenters, massage therapists, lawyers and other service providers, mostly because it is impossible to drop an appointment into a shopping cart without unleashing a scheduling nightmare.
Now that a set of Internet start-up companies has emerged to help solve this problem, though, small businesses could […]
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By MICHAEL LUO and GRIFF PALMER
With attention focused on the Democrats’ infighting for the presidential nomination, Senator John McCain is pressing ahead to the general election but has yet to sign up one critical constituency: the big-money people who powered the Bush fund-raising machine.
As he reintroduces himself to voters this week with stops like one […]
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By ROBIN POGREBIN
Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for such wildly diverse projects as the muscular Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and the exotically louvered Arab World Institute in Paris, has received architecture’s top honor, the Pritzker Prize.
Mr. Nouvel, 62, is the second French citizen to take the prize, awarded annually to a living architect […]
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By JIM YARDLEY
BEIJING — Like so many Chinese, Meng Huizhong was horrified by the violent Tibetan protests in Lhasa. She cringed at videos of Tibetan rioters attacking a Chinese motorcyclist. Her anger deepened as Tibet dominated her online conversation groups, until it settled on what might seem like an unlikely target: the Communist Party.
“We couldn’t […]
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