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...poor quality of Chinese schools is not a state secret. Consider what happened last year at the Hefei Artillery Academy in Anhui province, a school started decades ago by the People's Liberation Army to train young military cadets in the art of war. Five years ago, the school began accepting civilian students, offering undergraduate degrees in business, accounting and economics, among other subjects. But in November, civilian students learned that the degrees they were paying for were not recognized by Beijing's Ministry of Education. Chinese employers typically will not even interview students from unaccredited universities. When word...
...imperial infatuation. There are no cane-backed chairs or lovingly frayed Oriental rugs. Instead you'll find understated, masculine spaces that typify Fernando's personal style. There are high-backed upholstered sofas from Spain, a chandelier from the Netherlands, Chinese wedding cabinets, black-lacquer tabletops from Vietnam and Burmese art. In place of the pinks and reds so common in the subcontinent, there is a palette of avocado and chocolate, indigo, ebony, mud and ivory...
...fear of cultural amnesia - particularly of the region's traditional arts and crafts - that underlay the festival's inauguration in Suva, Fiji, in 1972. As "each and every one of our countries aspire to economic prosperity, we are all deeply conscious that the quality of life is what matters in the end," Fiji's then-Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, told delegates. In the 36 years since, the event has opened itself up to cross-cultural exchange (Townsville, 1988), contemporary art (Noumea, 2000) and, most recently, the arts of the northern Pacific (Palau, 2004), to become what the Secretariat...
...misunderstood," he says. "But that doesn't take up a lot of brain space to figure that out." He won't, for instance, appear on Saturday Night Live this season. "We have to do everything so people understand that this is a real campaign and not just a conceptual-art piece," he says...
...Georgian army today is a modern, well-mobilized force, armed with the state-of the-art weapons," Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff Anatoli Nagovitsin told the Interfax wire agency Sunday. That seemed to be a roundabout way of excusing the fact that in three days of fighting, the Russians may not have met all of their military objectives...