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...meets a vacationing Swede who has had a dead baby shoved in his face by an Indian beggar. "We were all horrified and, I think, more than a little envious," he writes. "All visitors to the developing world, if they are honest, will confess that they are actually quite keen on seeing a bit of squalor." And readers, if they are honest, will confess that they are more interested in this traveler's disintegration than in his resurrection...
...Frank Gehry and completed in 1997, it was also the world's first piece of blockbuster museum architecture since Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic 1959 Guggenheim building in New York. It showed that Krens could leverage the Guggenheim name and its collection while working with a local government keen to advance its economic and political interests. According to Bilbao authorities, the museum received 1.3 million visitors in its first year, and the city recouped more than three times its $100 million original investment from the tourist revenues generated by the Guggenheim. That spectacular success has encouraged other governments to court...
...leaders of the wealthy world weren't keen to launder much dirty linen in the famously clean waters of Evian last week. They talked about the global economy but not about the falling U.S. dollar; about advancing global free trade but not about cutting agricultural subsidies; about weapons of mass destruction but not - heaven forfend - about Iraq. There was one topic, however, on which Messrs. Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chrétien, Koizumi, Putin and Schröder talked real money: combatting aids in Africa, where it kills some 6,500 people a day, most of them women and children...
...increasingly mired in poverty and violence. Perry hustled, scouting records for sound systems, talent-spotting (Toots and the Maytals were a prize catch) and writing lyrics for others. Soon, at the mixing desk, he was helping make Studio One the island's hottest hit factory. In 1968, keen to make his own mark, Perry established the Upsetter label, and one evening heard the drum beat he wanted emanating from a Pocomania Church - a Revivalist Christian sect with West African roots. The resulting single, People Funny, Boy, "shook up the entire Jamaican music scene and gave birth to the form known...
...great deal of support. For a new dean’s first year, it’s been outstandingly successful,” Keen says. “There’s a great deal of enthusiasm that this is a school that’s turned the corner and is putting it into high gear...