Word: eastern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from the United Kingdom. Adjaye moved to London to finish his education and has become one of Britain’s leading architects. “African Cities” shows roughly 40 photographs each of 10 capital cities Adjaye snapped in his travels to the western, southern, and eastern regions of the continent. Many African capitals seem wracked with the same problems: a previous architectural tradition hijacked by colonialism and poorly managed since independence. Adjaye has his eyes largely on colonial and Modernist architecture, but also on the more informal architectural phenomena—marketplaces, slums, and so on?...
...objects, things that the museum doesn’t say.” Surprisingly, many of the students who contributed to the podcast were not history of art and architecture or visual and environmental studies concentrators. Rather, the approximately twenty undergraduates who participated range in concentration from Near Eastern languages and civilizations to biology. According to Hays, this diversity of academic backgrounds, is crucial so that listeners will be able to relate to the objects regardless of the extent of their prior study of art. “The podcast is about the experience of the museum. It?...
...country rivals to match. Vietnam's largest private bank, Asia Commercial Bank, has total assets of just $2.8 billion, compared with Agribank's $14.6 billion. To compete, private banks are aggressively raising capital by selling shares to Vietnamese and foreign investors. For example, Ho Chi Minh City-based Eastern Asia Bank has built up a $1.35 billion war chest, according to its CEO, Tran Phuong Binh. The bank plans to introduce telephone-banking services and open at least 100 branches. Many private banks are expanding into the countryside, where foreign banks are less likely to reach. Techcombank...
...Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, who dispatched Marines to protect Americans living in Beirut, which was war-torn even at the turn of the 20th century. Bush’s support of American businesses in the region even calls to mind the value Andrew Jackson placed on Middle Eastern trade...
...surge has been - with some notable exceptions - to avoid being drawn into head-on fights they can't win against superior U.S. firepower, the Sunni insurgents have responded by redeploying many of their fighters outside of Baghdad in search of softer targets. Spreading their forces, for example to the eastern province of Diyala, makes it necesssary for the U.S. to spread its own forces. The U.S. has reinforced Diyala's capital, Baquba, with a Stryker brigade of some 2,000 to 3,000 men. But with the Army's manpower already stretched to the limit, those reinforcements aren't being...