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...Arts & Business, a London-based body that develops partnerships between business and the arts. To him, corporate ideology brings the arts two blessings. The first: financial accountability, which he sees as a road to longevity. The second? "The private sector is far less onerous in its stipulations," he insists, dismissing the idea that corporate sponsors seek to influence the creative direction of the artists or galleries they sponsor. Can the marriage of art and business succeed? To find out, TIME looked at three countries on the frontier where artistic vision meets financial pressure. LONDON Clear voices, raised in song, rang...
...same time, we must insist on being told the truth about why this war seems so inevitable. The moral justifications for war against Saddam would surely lack any persuasive power had Sept. 11, 2001, not happened. As Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has rightly observed, any attempt to sustain truthful speech was lost as soon as the word war was used to describe the events of Sept. 11. What happened on that day was not war; it was murder. In his rush to assure the American people that everything could return to normal, President Bush declared...
...improved game plan that takes into account today's financial and technological realities [VIEWPOINT, Feb. 10]. The manned space-flight program is a costly publicity stunt and a shameless boondoggle at a time when the U.S. government is struggling to cope with urgent public needs. Many will insist on sympathetic but unthinking cheerleading for the space program, but we have to come up with a leaner, fitter and more successful plan. JUSTIN WHITTINGTON Washington...
...consumer of methamphetamines and is a major smuggling route for heroin out of the Golden Triangle. Stung by criticism that he has been soft on Burma, where most of the narcotics are produced, Thaksin has pledged no lenience for those supplying drugs to Thailand's 3 million users. Police insist that the bodies piling up are bad guys killed by other bad guys?specifically, drug lords silencing potential informers. The Thai term for such a murder is ka tat torn, or killing to cut the link...
...argument before, and it hasn't convinced them. Nor is it likely to break the deadlock at the UN Security Council, where the U.S., Britain and Spain are pushing a resolution that would give, if not explicit authorization, at least a nod to war, while France, Russia and Germany insist that weapons inspectors be given more time...