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...only 30 months left-by law, he isn't permitted to seek a third consecutive term-Tung's lame-duck slide has been accompanied by a startling rise in public activism, most often against government projects, such as an ambitious plan to build the largest urban arts and cultural district in Asia within a decade. Beijing itself may have prompted or even dictated the tone of self-criticism: last month in Macau, Tung and most of his cabinet stood uncomfortably on a stage as Chinese President Hu Jintao instructed the administration to "examine its inadequacies, and continue to raise...
...greatest contribution to a city often derided as a cultural desert: an arts center to be built on 40 weedy hectares of reclaimed harborfront land. First introduced in Tung's 1999 policy address, and later refined with a master plan by British architect Norman Foster, the West Kowloon Cultural District is slated to include at least four museums, four performance venues, art schools, galleries and studios, all housed under a swooping, transparent canopy. The district is to be built without any outlay from the public purse. It's the kind of project a well-oiled, popular administration should be able...
...bushfire that had finally seemed under control. "They were about to crack a beer," says Holman's wife Claire. "They thought we were safe." But then the wind changed - and with it the fortunes of the rural communities and farms of the lower peninsula, a sheep and grain district 650 km west of Adelaide. In searing heat, the wind accelerated to about 70 km/h, and within minutes the fire had broken free. By the end of the day, nine people - including four children trapped in cars - would be dead, and at least 80 homes, tens of thousands of farm animals...
...lights; by Tokyo's High Court; in Tokyo. Piqued by a $200 bonus for what Nichia claimed was merely a contribution to a team project, Nakamura sued his former employer in 2001, seeking a greater share of the profits from its LED patents and winning $194 million from a district judge. Although that decision was overturned, the $8 million payout, which Nakamura reluctantly accepted, marks the largest-ever award to a Japanese employee as compensation for an invention...
...NSTLERHAUS BETHANIEN The best thing about this former deaconesses' home in the hip Kreuzberg district, says Rump, is its presentation of artists who deal with "current topics like poverty and violence in their works." Dedicated to helping international artists since 1974, the venue, which is both publicly and privately funded, provides residents with 12-month grants. Twenty to 30 public exhibitions and performances are mounted each year. "They are always on the lookout for not-very-well-known artists who tend to turn up in big exhibitions years later," says Baier. "They have a sense for who is good...