Culture and Society

The world has been full of talented people. There is talent in everyone, but the simple fact is that most people never realize their talents, and those talents go to waste. These are people who knew what their talents were, but for one reason or another, their talents were wasted …

Isn’t there enough pain...without us denying succour to those most in need?

“A boon for all mankind” have become five of the most dangerous words..."

...to fathom the contempt George Orwell would have held for current standards of reportage.

“Take a typical family where the mother likes to watch dramas and the father likes to watch baseball or soccer. Now they can watch them together on the same screen,” Mikio Katayama, head of Osaka-based Sharp’s LCD business, told a news conference yesterday announcing a new liquid-crystal display that shows …

Pew’s Global Attitudes Project has just released a new study called “Islamic Extremism: Common Concern for Muslim and Western Publics,” which finds that support for terror is waning among the sampled Muslim public, lending some objective support to those who claim a moderate Islam will emerge from the current struggle …

...you can hear the music but also see where it comes from, read about that place and feel involved in the culture

There are various levels of Pottermania: those who are interested but aren’t going to kill themselves to get Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in the first few days; those who will make a point of getting their copy on Saturday, one of an expected 10.8 million copies to be …

...now when someone says he or she is a reformer, you can’t be sure what is meant.

Beginning tomorrow, July 14, Sheryl Crow is appearing in Dell television commercials nationwide featuring her anthemic upcoming single “Good is Good” (extended clip here). The first-ever Dell celebrity spokesperson, Crow will headline television commercials highlighting how consumers can tap into the power of technologies such as Dell’s Media Center PCs …