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...second concern is one of artist valuations. The temptation for smaller houses is to cash in on rocketing prices by flooding the market with the work of as many artists, new or old, as the market will bear. But how many of those artists have international staying power? "Globalization has persuaded collectors that local Asian artists will become globally important," says the director of the Singapore Art Museum, Kwok Kian Chow. At the same time, the critical literature with which the long-term importance of those artists may be evaluated is, in many cases, nonexistent. "There is a need...
...Washington Post: Have the last six years been evidence of [that lack of concern]? It's not the Bush Administration. Not at all. I think that would be a very unfair thing to put on the Bush Administration. In fact, I think in many ways the Bush Administration ought to be commended because they tried to reach out through faith-based initiatives. There were many, many plusses. No Child Left Behind - the concept of that really was to say every child matters. There are kids out there underperforming. There is a huge achievement gap between African-American kids and upper...
Terry's immediate concern is the pressure his son will face now that he has been released. "It's been an extraordinarily long time for him, and we are not sure how he's going to cope," he said. "But once he's out of the system he will be checked out and looked at and have medical, mental and physical checks." He paused, reflecting on the strain of the past few years. "Probably the mental checks will go on for quite a while," he said...
...play God by scorning international law. But more recently French public opinion softened as family members mounted an energetic communications offensive arguing the suspects' innocence. Television scenes of Chadian riot police keeping furious crowds from the accused, meanwhile, have also raised some French fears over their safety - a concern Chadians have denounced as neo-colonial. Elsewhere, some onlookers - including French officials working for the return of the six to France - remain troubled by the lack of remorse or real avowal of wrongdoing by Zoé's Ark leaders, who have said their only error was in being misled...
...case, the limiting factor may not be how much job training the CLCs have. The more serious concern is that Iraq's shaky economy simply may not have enough jobs to go around. Even with violence falling, unemployment remains high. If the security situation deteriorates further, the economic picture will only get bleaker. At that point, former CLCs may be faced with a choice between unemployment and a return to the ranks of the insurgency...