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...writer read several of his poems, including “The Great Tree” and “A Gentleman Compares his Virtue to a Piece of Jade,” and parts of his 2007 prose novel, Divisadero...
CRITERION Located in Angel Islington - an area of north London full of antique shops, boutiques, cafés and pubs - Criterion offers an extraordinary miscellany of furniture, jewelry and objets d'art. Fancy an amusing bronze pig or giant jade bowl? This is where you might find it. The small crowd of buyers is welcome to sit on the furniture for sale - which ranges in style from Biedermeier to Swedish Modern - and there's a cozy ambience. Kick back on an Art Deco settee and enjoy the auctioneer's banter: "Now here's a tiger-fabric chaise longue. Remember Eartha...
...Beyond the international humanitarian crisis also lies a potential economic one. Neighboring nations are increasingly dependent on Burma's resources, and most of the country's natural wealth - from jade and timber to hydropower and natural gas - is concentrated in the tribal regions. The planned route for a Chinese-financed project of dual natural-gas and oil pipelines, for instance, begins in an ethnically troubled part of western Burma's Arakan state and runs past the part of Shan state where fighting raged last month in Kokang. Construction of the Shwe pipeline project, the biggest ever foreign investment commitment...
...According to Jade C. Gardner, a Memorial Hall staff member, the building is alarmed and under constant patrol surveillance. “Security does patrol this area during the day and during the night,” she says. Like the others, she cites the direct line to HUPD as a security asset. “We call them, they come right away,” she says. Still, Annenberg is filled with sculptures and paintings but appears to lack high-security doors; Gardner was also unsure as to whether or not the security guards were armed...
...state funeral, but in other respects, the March 22 death of Jade Goody, 27, proved that the British reality-TV star had come closer than any of her compatriots--certainly closer than any royal--to filling the gap in public life left by Princess Diana. The street outside Goody's house swiftly disappeared under a snowfall of bouquets and soft toys, the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition issued solemn statements, and newspapers published commemorative editions. Goody's image could shift newsprint like no other celebrity since Diana...