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Michael Wolf, “Tokyo Compression #17” (2010)
“The Tokyo compression images were taken at one subway stop over a period of thirty days each morning during peak rush hour, between 7:30 and 9 A.M.,” Wolf told me. “Every eighty seconds, another train would pull up to the platform, jammed full of passengers on their way to work.”
Earlier this month, Photo Booth looked at the New York City subway over time. This week, they’ve curated a selection of contemporary images from subways around the world. Click-through for a slideshow: http://nyr.kr/10JfLhy -
Shouts & Murmurs - Meeting Minutes→
Meeting Minutes of Working Group II: Arbitration and Conciliation
Fifty-ninth session
New York1. Chairperson recognizes a quorum. Chairperson opens the floor for continued discussion on A/RES/66/425: Plenary Meeting Resolution on Legal Status of Indigenous Peoples.
2. MOTION by the representative of Bulgaria to amend Article V, Section ii, para 5, to include the word “possible” (i.e., “possible infractions”).
3. SECONDED by the representative of Russia.
4. THIRDED by the representative of Russia. Representative of Russia reminded by Chairperson that he cannot both second and third.
5. SECONDED by the representative of Greece. Representative of Greece reminded by Chairperson that it has already been seconded.
6. MOTION for more wine by representative of Italy…
Continue reading the minutes from a U.N. meeting that witnessed a little excessive drinking: http://nyr.kr/ZBKdHM
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How will American foreign policy evolve during Obama’s second term? Tonight, David Remnick is hosting a conversation about international relations with the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan E. Rice, and New Yorker staff writer Philip Gourevitch.
Watch a live video of the discussion above, and click-through for more: http://nyr.kr/W1GSSv
Here, see full videos of the previous installments of The Big Story.
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Boris Muñoz on the power games in Venezuela, and what will become of Chavismo without Chávez: http://nyr.kr/ZiL4Nw
Photograph by Eitan Abramovich/Getty.
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Tom Mueller talks to charismatic comedian Beppe Grillo about his serious goals for Italy: http://nyr.kr/XSBWOa
Photograph by Stefano De Luigi.
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When A Criminal Leads a Country
Have we started to lose faith in the very idea of humanitarian law?
In today’s Daily Comment, Steve Coll writes about Syria, the International Criminal Court, and justice: http://nyr.kr/XUzEy5
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Notes on (another) suppressed Chinese scandal: http://nyr.kr/XGI0sR
Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty.
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White Smoke and a Black Pope
Both because of his personality and the potential for a historic milestone, some journalists have taken to calling this papal election an “Obama moment” for the Church. This metaphor is apt only insofar as both will disappoint liberals hoping for significant change.
Naunihal Singh considers Cardinal Turkson of Ghana, who is favored to be the Church’s future: http://nyr.kr/ZGABhf
Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/Getty.
(Source: newyorker.com)
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Hollywood and China: Revenue and Responsibility
Hollywood and China could have a profitable new future together, but American directors might be surprised by the way Chinese fans can react to some good-natured pushback against the censors…
Evan Osnos on the growing relationship between Hollywood and China: http://nyr.kr/WWZHFR
(Source: newyorker.com)
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"…One could ask how much less complicated it really was when we were wound up in the Mubarak regime, with all its dynastic pathologies. Complicity and simplicity are not the same thing. But to leave it at that is slightly too facile: Egypt’s emergency is not Egypt’s alone, and some rhetorical clarity from the Obama Administration, if nothing else, would be helpful."
