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...focus. Time and again, the focusing routine has responded to his commands by crashing. For half an hour, engineers have been trying to figure out what is going on--while the first of the precious celestial objects on Ellis and Stark's observing schedule sinks inexorably toward the horizon. "This is pretty profound," says Ellis, bitterly. "If you can't focus the telescope, you're stuffed...
...Shih of UBS. Clive Bannister, the London-based CEO of HSBC Group Private Banking, notes that Asians are more "hands-on" in their investment decisions than the bank's European clients?and less willing to wait for returns to be realized. "There is no doubt that the investment time horizon for many of our Asian clients is shorter than it is for our European ones," Bannister says. Asia's wealthy also tend to be younger and to have made their money through their own entrepreneurial efforts, while there is more inherited wealth in old-world Europe...
...Sydney Opera House world premiere of Lim's new work for didgeridoo, flute and orchestra, and the SSO may never sound the same again. The Perth-born composer was interested in how Barton could reconfigure the symphonic frequencies of the orchestra, and The Compass is about "tilting the horizon point," she says. "In a way, the didgeridoo collects all the low instruments around it." The piece also brings Barton back to his roots. He begins with a chant in his native Kalkadunga tongue, since "the voice is absolutely the heart of what the didgeridoo's about," the composer says...
...misled by reckless military officers like Tojo -- a verdict surprisingly similar to the one reached at the Tokyo War Crimes trials, which many conservatives had long insisted was biased. "Japan," the editors of the Yomiuri write, "in a sense drove itself over a precipice." With fresh leadership on the horizon, Japan has a chance to reexamine Yasukuni and pull back from another precipice...
...this week Chavez's adversaries have finally started to show some signs of a unified front. With the prospect of a divisive round of primaries on the horizon, the majority of opposition candidates for December's presidential election withdrew on Wednesday in order to back Manuel Rosales, governor of Zulia state and the leading opposition candidate in the polls. After months of intense negotiations, opposition leaders seem to understand that throwing their weight behind one man is their only prospect - however slim - at unseating the heavily-favored Chavez. Front runners Julio Borges of the Justice First party and Teodoro Petkoff...