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The Beijing Summer Olympics' Opening Ceremony aired to one billion people, surpassing even Mao's wildest dreams of totalitarian reach. The 90-minute spectacle, featuring 14,000 performers and 34,000 fireworks, was billed as a dramatizati...
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Alexandra Munroe is Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Her exhibitions include a major retrospective of the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, a commissioned installation by Anish Kapoor titled Anish Kapoor: Memory, and a historical survey examining the influence of Asian art and thought on American modernism titled The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 to 1989, which is on view through April. She is an award-winning curator and former museum director.
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Divya Gugnani is the CEO and founder of BehindtheBurner.com, an emerging culinary media brand that creates expert-based content about food, wine, mixology, and nutrition.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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Benjamin Sarlin is Washington correspondent for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
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Jaimie Etkin is an editorial assistant at The Daily Beast. She has also written for Us Weekly and Radar.
Max Read is a writer living and working in New York City.
