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...never done that before. I can get up and sing all day, and I can get up and be silly and foolish and playful, but when you've got that many kids waiting for you to say something meaningful ... I really put a lot of thought and effort into what I needed and wanted to say. But it was an experience, that's for sure. I got my doctorate there. I got to be Dr. Dolly. So that was all wonderful. But I was a little bit scared. Speaking is a little different for me than performing. But they came...
...push to professionalize art in India is also shaking up the old guard. Pramod Kumar, associate director of the private collection of Ibrahim Alkazi, says the biggest change is a new effort to catalog old collections that have been gathering dust or simply deteriorating for years. Without rigorous record-keeping, it's impossible to set rational prices or establish the provenance of a piece for sale. "It gives a reference point," Kumar says. "What are the origins for whatever has come before...
...failing banks. The role has Warren monitoring the decisions of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and the big-bank CEOs who have taken taxpayer money to clean up companies' balance sheets. If Warren's journey from Harvard to the center of the emergency financial-rescue effort were a movie, it could be called Out of the Library and into the Snake Pit. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has pointed to California and Florida as being "way ahead of the curve" in terms of preparing for HSR. Florida, for example, already did most of the spade work, including land acquisition and environmental-impact and ridership studies before Bush quashed its first HSR effort five years ago. Californians have approved a $9 billion bond issue to finance an ambitious 800-mile network that could ultimately cost as much as $45 billion and would not only zip passengers between Los Angeles and San Francisco in less than three hours but would ferry them to Sacramento...
...Google spokesman told reporters the company was "continually working to deal with pornographic content and material that is harmful to children on the Web in China" and that the company would renew this effort. While it's not clear what prompted this attack, some observers see a connection with the lambasting that authorities received both domestically and overseas when news broke recently that starting July 1, all computers sold in China would be required to have pornography-filtering software pre-installed. The news caused outrage among Chinese computer users, many of whom complained that the software, called Green Dam Youth...