From the monthly archives:

August 2009

How Celebrities Stay Famous (Regardless of Talent)

What is less clear is how people, ideas and practices become prominent in the first place, Schaller says. In baseball, performance is likely to provide

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Rebranding Africa

This is a country whose music of choice is jazz; a country that long ago invented a genre called highlife that spread across Africa —

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