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...
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.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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