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La Femme @IMF

US Endorses France’s Lagarde as New IMF Chief NYTimes

Christine Lagarde spoke outside the I.M.F. in Washington last Thursday. Jacquelyn Martin/Associated PresThe Executive Board of the IMF is meeting today, with the intention of naming Christine Lagarde as the first women head of the International Monetary Fund. Yesterday China endorsed Lagarde and this morning US Treasury Secretary Timothy F Geithner announced American’s support for the current finance minister of France, saying:

“Minister Lagarde’s exceptional talent and broad experience will provide invaluable leadership for this indispensable institution at a critical time for the global economy,” Mr. Geithner said in a statement. “We are encouraged by the broad support she has secured among the Fund’s membership, including from the emerging economies.

Christine Lagarde and Tom Friedman @Women in the World 2010 The Daily Beast

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In this lunchtime interview with French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman goes right to the big issues—the world economy, the fate of the euro, and the plight of women.

Brainiac

Happy 5th Birthday TED

The 20 most-watched TEDTalks (so far) TED Blog

Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?

And the winner is a superb video from Ken Robinson, presented in 2006 at TED.

Les Artistes

Making Sculpture of Images

Curves Ahead | Maurizio Anzeri @Baltic | Boticelli’s Venus Reversal SN Living

Talking about photography as a medium, Maurizio explains that he is more interested in its use as an object and material rather than in its process. “When we all look at a photograph, we somehow believe that we look at the truth or at some kind of reality but we know that it’s not, It’s just a moment”, he says. Capturing a moment on that piece of paper is to Maurizio truly fascinating. “We all still look at it as if it’s real. It’s trapped in there and it’s like you managed to cast some kind of magic spell on that piece of paper to entrap some kind of reality to use and reuse every time you look at it”.