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...little to halt Frances' declining creativity. But not only do Albanel and her supporters contest the idea that French cultural vibrancy is fading; they also have a nice retort to free-market enthusiasts decrying her plan. Albanel's project is roughly based on the "Own Art" scheme launched in Britain in 2004 by Arts Council England. The program is credited with having created 10,000 new, mostly middle class modern art collectors in just three years, and inspired a similar program in the Netherlands...
Critics of Gordon Brown - and amid sliding approval ratings and mutterings from the ranks of his own Labour Party, there are more than a few - complain that Britain's Prime Minister lacks vision. They say he's a details man - not a bad attribute in a Finance Minister, the role he occupied for just over a decade, but a weakness in a national leader whose job it is to discern and articulate the bigger picture. Yet from the Scottish home Brown has owned for more than 20 years, a solid family house with large bay windows and a sloping front...
Relations between Russia and Britain remain chilly since the 2006 murder in London of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, but there are signs that China is warming to Brown. He speaks regularly to the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, has offered to help facilitate dialogue with the Dalai Lama, and is also lobbying the Chinese to put pressure on Sudan to accept the deployment of peacekeepers in Darfur...
Feng Zhongping of the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations says Brown is "building trust with the Chinese leaders. He thinks China will play a favorable role [in its relations with] Britain in the age of globalization. This opinion sets him apart from other European leaders." The Prime Minister dismisses reports that he entertained any thoughts of boycotting the Beijing Olympics in protest over China's crackdown in Tibet. He always intended, he says, to miss the opening celebrations but to attend the closing ceremonies, where the mantle of the Olympics will be passed on to London, which will host...
...mandate in his own right - a gambit that proved disastrous when he balked at holding elections in the face of an upswing in support for the Conservative opposition. Another well-polished asset, Brown's reputation for sound economic stewardship, has become ever more tarnished as Britain's economy takes hits from the worldwide financial turbulence triggered by the U.S. credit crisis. It's hard to sell high-flown ideas of multilateralism or promote increases in aid to the world's poorest when your own people see the value of their homes and stocks sinking and the price of food...