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But is it a little too late? - Mark Tong

50 years young...and counting - Mark Tong

oh...crap! - Mark Tong

In his analysis of the Ninth, de La Grange castigates Leonard Bernstein's doomful reading of the symphony--especially in his Harvard lectures, The Unanswered Question--as a work that not only foretells Mahler's death but the death of music too. In particular, he questions Bernstein's characterization of the opening unsteady rhythmic theme as the sound of a cardiac arrhythmia. - Mark Tong

Jaap van Zweden - Mark Tong

Excellent profile. The Philippe Bouin quote, I think, was spot-on: "Every tennis lover would like, someday, to play like Federer. But every man wants to be Rafael Nadal. Which is different.” - Mark Tong

Excellent coverage and analysis...thanks to NRDC and CECPA! - Mark Tong

Mr. Drucker’s retirement has unleashed an orgy of numbers from the Philharmonic: 10 music directors during his tenure, 60 countries visited on tour, 191 solo appearances and 10,200 concerts with the orchestra — two-thirds of the total since it was founded in 1842. - Mark Tong

I checked out the site a few days ago; frankly, it was still in a mess and I wonder if it can be finished on time. Construction debris and scaffolding aside, the building looks great. - Mark Tong

Another ugly and wasteful building in China is now gone. - Mark Tong

Another element of San Fran's architecture is its blow-past-the-norm embrace of energy-efficient and eco-friendly designs. - Mark Tong

Not that impressed with JG, but would love to check out A16. - Mark Tong

If you want security, hire a thief. - Mark Tong

Zhang follows the footsteps of a long string of star conductors: Giulini, Chailly, Muti, and Maazel. - Mark Tong

Lupa's theatre is about the thought and emotion working its way and taking place at the right moment, and the Polish director is not interested in rushing the audience forward. - Mark Tong

Is Obama in Wall Street's hip pocket? If not, why isn't Obama doing something to dispel the appearance of it? - Mark Tong

...a chicken and egg issue. - Mark Tong

The article misses the school's most infamous graduate of this decade: George W Bush. - Mark Tong

for iPhone lovers. - Mark Tong

Cohen is the go-to legal guru in the tumultuous year of banking and finance. - Mark Tong

Where is Wittgenstein vs. Popper ? - Mark Tong

"...across the country, business-school faculties are grappling with the possibility that they've been instilling generations of students with a naive faith in free markets, teaching them to focus solely on short-term profits, and justifying some of the more outrageous executive-compensation schemes that have become Exhibit A in the case against corporate America." - Mark Tong

LEED certification falls short of that ultimate goal. - Mark Tong

This just shows how despicably disgusting SoCal politics has turned into. - Mark Tong

Hulu is big media's last-gasp attempt at holding onto their power as the de facto broker between content and consumer. This episode reflects what is at stake. - Mark Tong

A nice gesture for a big pharma, though GSK could have impressed me even more by ripping out the price cap and make those medicine available at cost+capped margin. But in any case, is now the coming of age for CSR? - Mark Tong

How to quantify a district's competitiveness, bizarreness, congruity with media markets, racial enfranchisement ? - Mark Tong

Will the U.S. government run to save munis from a domino-style collapse? If not, are we running the risk of a complete collapse of the capital markets? - Mark Tong

This is a good overview of Google and Youtube's internal censors. Is the company that claims to be a repository of all information anyone wants also playing god by deciding what information we should get? - Mark Tong

Dean captures the moment just as a generational shift in politics takes place. - Mark Tong