July 2009
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Busking 2.0
Working New York’s streets and subways is becoming more difficult.
As consumers shift their spending to plastic, pockets are naked of bills and coins. No more dollars for the erhu player. No more pennies for the homeless.
And yet, the pitch endures. Organists set up shop in the subway, dropping a few coins and bills in their case to give the appearance that someone before has...
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Communication Breakdown Palace
Talk about bad PR.
“As you may have guessed by now, Harvard refused to cooperate when I was reporting this story. At first, the university’s public-relations apparatus ignored me. Week after week, e-mail after e-mail, I’d be assured that someone or someone else was unavailable—in meetings, or on vacation, or away from his desk, or out of the office, ill. When I did manage to track someone...