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...Hall, is keenly watching what the Kiwis are doing. Since becoming director in 1987, Hall began "a policy shift that took our gaze north and east," he says. Not only has he amassed one of the world's finest collections of modern Asian and Pacific art but, as of August next year, he will have a glassy new gallery in addition to the current one to display it in. Hall describes the $82 million Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (200 m along the Brisbane River from the QAG) as a floating pavilion, "and there's nothing more democratic...
...pitfall is that the HCC’s purse is controlled by the Undergraduate Council (UC), which can’t allocate funds for future academic years giving the HCC almost no time to plan a concert. This year, funds for a fall concert were not allocated until late August, giving the HCC just two months. According to HCC Chair Jack P. McCambridge ’06, ideally, the HCC should have six months to plan and stage an event...
...patriotic obligations and commercial contracts overwhelmed the laid-back Shanghai native. Even as his visage was plastered on billboards nationwide, Liu lost his athletic focus, spending less time in training and consequently injuring his knee. Nevertheless, by the summer, Liu's off-track burden had eased, and in August the 22-year-old hurdler strode back onto the medal podium: at the World Championships in Helsinki, he came a close second to France's Ladji Doucour?. And on Sept. 17, Liu raced to victory in front of a jubilant home crowd at the prestigious Shanghai Golden Grand Prix, defeating...
...political bosses in order to enforce election campaign rules. The sight of an upstanding bureaucrat efficiently coordinating relief to thousands of victims of monsoon floods in a state notorious for crime, corruption and poverty caught TIME's eye: we made him one of our heroes for 2004. But in August, the Bihar State Vigilance Investigation Bureau charged the 39-year-old civil servant and 10 alleged accomplices with embezzling millions of dollars in relief funds. While Bureau investigators acknowledge Goswami was an efficient aid distributor who did help flood victims, they add that, as the official who authorized payments...
...terror operative better known as Hambali, to "pick [Khan] up, feed him, house him and take care of him," the source says. "He was checking out the places, trying to see how much funding was needed to keep the jihad going." Hambali, who was arrested in Thailand in August 2003, had extremely close links to al-Qaeda's leadership and acted as operations chief for Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the militant network credited with several bombings in the region, including the October 12, 2002 attack in Bali, Indonesia that killed 202 people. On Khan's first visit, the jailed militant told...