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...listen and adapt can help. While November's unrest and arson attacks affected many suburbs around Paris, the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux to the south of the French capital was largely spared. There, Mayor Andr? Santini has bet heavily on technology infrastructure in a successful bid to attract international firms such as Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. He's also used technology to interact more openly with Issy's 63,000 residents. Issy was the first French town to start an Internet-based local TV service, and last December it held an online election for councilors for Issy...
Images of the gorgeous mosaic and gold-leaf paintings of Vienna's native son Gustav Klimt have long graced everything in Austria from chocolate wrappings to subway walls. The real things, so emblematic of Vienna's embrace of early 20th century Art Nouveau, attract tens of thousands of art lovers to the city each year. So it was with genuine dismay that Austrians woke one morning last week to discover that five of the artist's best-known works housed in the Belvedere Palace - including the famous golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the painting's original owner - were suddenly...
...sure that the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford are thrilled,” Miller said. “It’ll be a lot easier for them to attract top students...
...were going to make it because a lot of people said no one was going to come because it was about independent film and it was in the middle of winter. I put it there to make it harder for people to get to so it would attract attention and you knew that the people that did come came because they cared. It was a risk. The first year three or four hundred people came total. And now you have 45,000 people and it?s right at the edge of things; there?s only so much the city...
...Initiative is to encourage lots of interaction...between the Middle East and the Kennedy School so we can understand, on the political and economic level, what is going on in the Middle East,” said Dagli, who added that the Governance Initiative hoped that the trip would attract Arab students who would eventually return to “become agents of change” in their countries.Ambassador Barbara Bodine, the director of the Initiative, did not respond to requests for comment last night.The expedition has also received help from alumni in the region, who have provided logistical support...