It is a painting that exposes in oils what Chekhov so often did in print: sunlight mocking a dark isolation of the moment. A moment fixed in a brave, failing light.

It is that rare impressionist painting where people don't judge the light, but rather are judged by it.

We launched the U.S.-Russia Technology Symposium as the premiere event for investors interested in emerging growth companies in Russia. Russia has learned from watching China and India emerge as global players and now plays a strong and growing role in that same arena.

In hermetic isolation, all kinds of bizarre and toxic ideas can fester. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and exposing a bad idea to the critical glare of other minds provides at least a chance that it will wither and die.

Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.

One of the challenges we have is to be able to read the fine print indoors without any sunlight.