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...Last month, the university put these items and many more together as part of an exhibition called Disposal? Visitors were asked which artifacts they'd pitch, and, more vitally, for what reasons. The collections reviewers are now poring through hundreds of visitor feedback forms to learn how the public would go about thinning the university's collections. Armed with that information, they'll soon start the lengthy process of deciding what will stay or go. (The Agatha Christie basket should get a reprieve - officials admit they've grown quite fond of it.) (Read "On Show at Taipei's National Palace...
...numerous public outcries over downsizing collections in recent years, especially when museums try to sell items. Cash-strapped Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., was sued in July by art donors for moving to shut down its Rose Art Museum and sell off part of its $350 million collection. Last month, the university backed down and agreed to forgo the sale...
Aftur's bottom line isn't unique. Down the street the three-month-old Fabelhaft shop has also logged surprisingly high sales. "Opening now has been the best investment for us," says co-owner Dusa Olafsdottir. Inside, tourists and natives mill around bespoke hats and dresses in the boutique's bleached white cube. "Before the crash it was ridiculously expensive on this street, but now you can have your own label and store." (See pictures of expensive things that money...
...part of the policy shift, Kurt Campbell, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, visited Burma earlier this month - the first such high-level tour in nearly 15 years. In a significant concession, Campbell was allowed to meet for two hours with the opposition leader and Nobel Peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Her party won by a landslide in 1990 elections that the junta then ignored; and her continued detention has angered the West. But not everyone was available to meet Campbell: junta supremo General Than Shwe stayed holed up in his army...
...Obama does exchange more than photo-op pleasantries with Thein Sein in Singapore, it would be natural for the American to ask the Burmese Prime Minister about Suu Kyi's fate. In a tantalizing announcement earlier this month, Min Lwin, a director-general of Burma's Foreign Ministry claimed to the Associated Press that "there is a plan to release [Aung San Suu Kyi] soon