"維多利亞的秘密"女內衣品牌 (the Victoria’s Secret) 創始人、如今的巨額捐贈者萊斯利·韋克斯納Leslie Wexner將傑弗裡·愛潑斯坦Epstein介紹給了哈佛大學。如今，一場要求將韋克斯納的名字從哈佛大學建築中移除的抗議運動逐漸平息。韋克斯納究竟知道些什麼？他是什麼時候知道的？高等教育領域真正的掌權者又是誰？ call the shots (or tune). And who really calls the shots in higher education?

 call the shots (or tune). And who really calls the shots in higher education?

As George Lucas’s ‘Starship’ Museum Nears Landing, He Takes the Controls

The ‘Star Wars’ director parted ways with the museum’s top boss and is clearly calling the shots as his Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles approaches completion.

Leslie Wexner, the Victoria’s Secret mogul turned megadonor, introduced Jeffrey Epstein to Harvard. Now, a growing protest movement to strip Wexner’s name from university buildings is being shut down. What did Wexner know? When did he know it? And who really calls the shots in higher education? Dhruv Patel from The Harvard Crimson interviews the press-shy billionaire, and Pablo obtains a new tranche of internal fund-raising transactions that reveals $100 million in publicly unaccounted donations.

維多利亞的秘密創始人、如今的巨額捐贈者萊斯利·韋克斯納將傑弗裡·愛潑斯坦介紹給了哈佛大學。如今，一場要求將韋克斯納的名字從哈佛大學建築中移除的抗議運動逐漸平息。韋克斯納究竟知道些什麼？他是什麼時候知道的？高等教育領域真正的掌權者又是誰？ 《哈佛深紅報》的德魯夫·帕特爾採訪了這位不願接受媒體採訪的億萬富翁，而帕布羅則獲得了一批新的內部籌款交易記錄，揭露了高達1億美元的未公開捐款。



Eight years after breaking ground, the 300,000-square-foot museum in Exposition Park is almost finished.Credit...Aleksey Kondratyev

In Australia, an Old Victorian With a Moody Modernist Vibe

Cabinet post was a sharp change for a former Exxon Mobil CEO who was used to calling the shots


Instagram is stealing the show at Fashion Week, as legions of amateur photographers use the free iPhone app to turn camera-phone snapshots into moody compositions.


Whoever succeeds Mr Beitz there will continue to call the shots at the firm—and will loom large in German industry.

call the shots (or tune)

• take the initiative in deciding how something should be done:we believe in parents and teachers calling the shots

moody


IN BRIEF: Having frequently changeable and often negative emotions.

 And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe. — Thomas Gray (1716-1771).

adj., -i·er, -i·est.

1. Given to frequent changes of mood; temperamental.
2. Subject to periods of depression; sulky.
3. Expressive of a mood, especially a sullen or gloomy mood: a moody silence.

moodily mood'i·ly adv.
moodiness mood'i·ness n.

St. Elmo's fire (saynt EL-mohz fyr)

noun: An electrical discharge visible at the surface of a conductor, as a ship's mast or an airplane's wing.

Etymology
After St. Erasmus (mispronounced as Elmo by sailors) who is regarded as the patron saint of sailors and an electrical discharge on the mast of a ship is believed to be a sign of his protection. This phenomenon of corona discharge is also called St. Elmo's light.

Usage
"When Capt Moody opened the door to the cockpit he saw the windscreen ablaze with a St. Elmo's fire -- a discharge of static electricity." — When Volcanic Ash Stopped a Jumbo at 37,000ft; BBC News (London, UK); Apr 15, 2010.

"Donald Holder's lighting design needed more pizzazz, particularly in scenes like the storm that sparks St. Elmo 's fire on the ship's masts." — Heidi Waleson; Taming the Whale; The Wall Street Journal (New York); May 4, 2010.

conductor
n.

1. One who conducts, especially:
   1. One who is in charge of a railroad train, bus, or streetcar.
   2. Music. One who directs an orchestra or other such group.
2. Physics. A substance or medium that conducts heat, light, sound, or especially an electric charge.
3. A lightning rod, as on a house or barn.

conductorial con'duc·to'ri·al (kŏn'dŭk-tôr'ē-əl, -tōr'-) adj.
conductorship con·duc'tor·ship' n.