About Jim Collins

For This Guru, No Question Is Too Big
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/business/24collins.html?em

Useful link:
www.jimcollins.com

Impressive shortlist: Creative 53% + Teaching 28% + Other 19%. Hats off to Jim. You are just plain lucky.

Afghan Emerald

Dynamite sticks and gem stones
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8060813.stm

You need luck in this place if you want to get rich.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin is a fine tribute to a remarkable writer of our time. A must read.

Useful link:
www.pitt.edu/~hispan/faculty/martin.html

Bill Cunningham Viewpoint

On the Street / Boundless
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/05/24/fashion/20090524-street-slide-show/index.html#

Great review. Experimental and colorful. Thanks Bill.

The White Ribbon

Michael Haneke's work, 'The White Ribbon', has won the Palme d'Or, the main prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Check out the link www.festival-cannes.fr

Heard On The Street

To be an intelligent gemstone dealer, you must be unemotional/inversely emotional.

Ancient Gem-Studded Teeth

Ancient Gem-Studded Teeth Show Skill of Early Dentists
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090518-jeweled-teeth-picture.html

Ancient peoples of southern North America went to "dentists"—among the earliest known—to beautify their chompers with notches, grooves, and semiprecious gems, according to a recent analysis of thousands of teeth examined from collections in Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.

Useful link:
www.inah.gob.mx

Picasso Cézanne Exhibition 2009

Unlocked: Picasso’s chateau of love
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/architecture_and_design/article6350372.ece

Useful links:
www.museegranet-aixenprovence.fr
www.picasso.fr
www.musee-picasso.fr
www.museupicasso.bcn.es
www.graphikmuseum-picasso-muenster.de

A unique time capsule. A must visit.