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...make Singapore a Renaissance City have been upgraded; the new plan is called "Renaissance City 2.0", and apparently a "SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) Analysis" shows that "cultural capital" working in "creative clusters" will turn Singapore into a "creative economy". In May, the government actually revealed a mathematical formula for creating cultural capital...
...government is poised to pour money into making that formula work, with MITA's paper touting ambitious proposals like the construction of a new Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art modeled after the Bilbao Guggenheim. After years of being financially neglected by the government, however, artists are skeptical. The National Arts Council only spent $840,000 on artist training grants last year. "The government spends a lot of money on hardware and very little on software," says actor Glen Goei...
...used in the 1896 Games. The marathon race will retrace the route of the very first marathon man, who sped with news of victory from the battle at Marathon to Athens in 490 B.C. Toss in Greek charm and an eagerness to succeed, and the Greeks may have the formula for a happy and successful Games. With a population of 10.9 million, Greece is the smallest country to stage the Summer Games since Finland in 1952, when the Olympics were a considerably more modest affair. "We are determined to prove that Greece, a small nation, can deliver...
...MBTA”) and punk-infused Irish folk songs (“Finnegan’s Wake,” “Wild Rover”) with equal fervor. And while the Murphys don’t stray too far from the all-things-Boston-and-Irish formula, they throw in a few welcome surprises, including raucous covers of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” and Gang Green’s “Alcohol...
...Afghanistan is seven-and-a-half hours time difference from us. What is with that half hour? Yet another weird thing about that country. What makes white sapphires different from diamonds, since they look just like diamonds. I know it’s their chemical formula, but still, I think they should be something different from sapphires or diamonds, maybe. What century almost anything literary happened in. Are the Brontës 19th or 18th? Cervantes 16th or 17th? And stuff like Saint Augustine or Virgil or Homer—forget it. And I concentrated in literature. Why David Caruso...