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...might expect on Wall Street, money is the prime motivator. So long as cash continues to flood into environmental investment vehicles, new ones will keep being created. "There is a lot of demand for these eco-products," says Ronald van der Ham, assistant director of equity structuring for ABN Amro, and that is what's driving "the constant stream of new indices and new funds being launched." Lipper FERI, a mutual-fund information provider in London, estimates that Europe's environmental and ecological equity funds alone raised nearly $8 billion in the first three quarters of 2007, almost $4 billion...
Qian also credited his thesis adviser David Der-Wei Wang, a professor of Chinese literature, for much of his success. “He has been a real model to me, and I don’t know where I would be without...
...minor, Op. 67” and Holst’s “The Planets.” The evening began with the familiar sound of Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5,” which first premiered in Vienna’s Theater an der Wien in 1808—the very same year that the HRO’s first incarnation was formed. This piece was an appropriate classic with which to start off such a momentous season opening. The symphony, composed of movements “Allegro con brio...
...movement, and complementing the ever-shifting silhouette of the spot-lit sculpture. In the past, the original sculpture has only been set in motion during weekly demonstrations due to its fragility, while the label directed viewers to a video made available online. Paintings by Max Beckmann from the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Through Jan. 6, 2008 The three paintings by Max Beckmann on loan from the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich each represent very different stages in the German painter’s life and career. The earliest, “Dance in Baden-Baden?...
...Summer tourism naturally accounts for part of the phenomenon, but local residents also have time off, and therefore the leisure to visit museums. The ones I visited this summer seemed well prepared to cater to this special audience. In Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie—housed in Mies van der Rohe’s great modernist shell—gutted its permanent collection and put up a massively advertised show of French impressionist and post-impressionist art from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Tickets were expensive and lines were long, but Berliners flocked to the exhibit...