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...shattering the previous world record for Qing dynasty porcelain. In late September, Macau gaming tycoon Stanley Ho spent $8.9 million on a bronze horse head looted by British and French troops from Beijing's old Summer Palace, or Yuanmingyuan, in 1860. He then donated the artwork, which fetched the highest price ever paid for Qing sculpture, to the Chinese state. "Bringing back all the things from the Summer Palace, it's a kind of revenge," says Chiu Che Bing, a Paris-based advisor on the restoration of the palace gardens...
...from 100%, and I don't know where that exists anyway, even in the countries that come to give us lessons. But for us, first of all we have to create institutions, laws, we have to educate people and move forward and see these freedoms constantly increase, to the highest level we can take them...
...love story. It earned $170 million worldwide, was nominated for eight Oscars and won three, and many believed it deserved Best Picture. That film was Brokeback Mountain. I was surprised that neither it nor The Notebook rated a mention in Luscombe's article, as those films are the two highest-grossing romantic dramas of the past several years. Dean Backus, HILLSBORO...
Rwanda also scores well on some perennial African problems. It is one of the safest countries on the continent. It boasts the highest percentage of women in parliament anywhere in the world - 49%. Its rate of HIV infection is at 3% - tiny compared to the figure in other small sub-Saharan African development stars, such as Botswana and Namibia - and all its 35,000 aids sufferers are on antiretroviral drugs. It is investing heavily in education. The government is also tackling overpopulation, which - in that it describes a situation of too many people on not enough land - was an underlying...
...Luxembourg is home to the European Court of Justice, the highest court in the European Union...