Word: billboard
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...billboard has gone up just below Dubai's World Trade Center. It features images of Dubai's more recognizable landmarks, like the sail-shaped Burj al-Arab hotel and Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building. They are all adornments for the subject of the billboard: Dubai's leader, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum. The sheik has been rumored to have suffered significant health problems from the strain brought on by the emirate's economic woes. The billboard is meant to belie those rumors; it shows the sheik, 59, looking sharp, vibrant and healthier than ever. Behind his picture...
...past, so it’s something new,” said CEB Chair Kevin M. Mee ’10. Bareilles, a California native and UCLA graduate, is best known for her single “Love Song,” which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 last year. Last fall, the CEB conducted a poll to gauge the genres students most wished to see at Yardfest. Despite receiving over 3,000 responses, Mee said the survey primarily showed the CEB the variety of musical interests within the student body. Speculation arose earlier this semester that...
Bareilles, a California native and UCLA graduate, is best known for her single “Love Song,” which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 last year...
...center stage at the Olympic opening ceremonies in Beijing. His YouTube videos generate more views than some Billboard Top 100 artists. His record label Deutsche Gramophone headlines him as nothing less than “the future of classical music”. After a whirlwind of high-profile concerto engagements and an international recital tour brought some critics to dub 2008 the “Year of Lang Lang,” Chinese pianist turned classical music rockstar Lang Lang had a tall order to fill at this past Sunday’s Symphony Hall solo recital, a presentation...
...Smile, you're in Swat," reads a billboard on the main road into the lush green honeymooners' valley in Pakistan once dubbed the "Switzerland of Asia." But over the past two years, Swat has been turned into a playground for the Taliban. And it may be the Taliban and their fellow Islamists who have the biggest reason to smile as a result of the Pakistani government's decision last week to end its floundering military campaign there and instead accept the Taliban's demand for the imposition of Islamic Shari...