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...exhibition - commissioned by a South Korean publishing company at a cost of around $2 million - has been a raging success. In fact, it is poised to become the most popular photography exhibit ever held in South Korea. Since early July, more than 42,000 visitors have strolled through the doors of the Hangaram Art Museum at the Seoul Arts Center, www.sac.or.kr, and another 50,000 visitors are expected to view the images before the show wraps...
...What won Beckett his Nobel Prize - the grim death gargling at you from every page - may also keep audiences away; they think he's a sanctified chore, homework for Mensa members. But as McGovern, Fiennes and Neeson demonstrated, with their considerable artistry, Beckett was a mesmerizer, a spellbinder, who held a cracked mirror to humanity and saw the humanity in it. We're pitiable creatures, no doubt, and birth is just the first step toward death, but funny in our cruelties and yearnings. At least that's what this Beckett fan thought at the end of the Gate marathon, Laugh...
...board's decision marks the first time that all members of an executive board are being held personally accountable for alleged financial damages to a German blue-chip company. The development is widely seen as a sign that the traditionally cozy relationship between German supervisory boards and the executive management boards they oversee is breaking down once...
Turkey's popularly elected, Islamist-rooted government survived to rule another day, after the country's top court narrowly ruled today against banning the ruling party. In a 6-5 opinion, Constitutional Court judges held that there was insufficient evidence backing the charge that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was undermining Turkey's secular democracy and seeking to turn the country into an Islamic state. The court did, however, issue a warning on the issue, and it cut public funding for the party by half, leaving Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan facing a monumental challenge to restore political stability...
...faculty and students.Additionally, Frenk said that he hopes to establish a “very fluid communication” with Harvard's other graduate schools and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, emphasizing Harvard's recent push toward more cross-school collaborations in the sciences. Though he has never held a full-time position at Harvard, Frenk does have ties to the University. In addition to having served as a visiting professor, he was the School of Public Health's Class Day speaker in both 2001 and 2007, and is an adviser to the Harvard Initiative for Global Health...