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...clear objectives and implementation goals backed by a well-established institutional setup. This setup now extends to Guangdong, where our Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, and the Guangdong Governor, Huang Huahua, oversee a Joint Liaison Group to agree on action plans and monitor progress on the environment for the whole Pearl River Delta region. The target on air quality is to achieve emissions reductions for both sides by 2010. The reduction program has started and 16 state-of-the-art monitoring stations are now up and running. If one compares the air quality of Hong Kong and Seoul in recent years...
...high-price debut novelist, having feted him at the New York restaurant Oceana earlier this month. His historical thriller features Sigmund Freud on his sole visit to the U.S. in 1909, and a diabolical killer who is attacking Manhattan's wealthiest heiresses. "A bold page-turner," says Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club, "with a driving plot." A big Pennsylvania bookseller told PW, "there's no question that this will be the fall's big book...
...early samurai films?Tamura appeared in more than 90 roles, starring in the World War II melodrama Nijushi no Hitomi (Twenty-Four Eyes), which won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1955, and in the 1970 U.S.-Japan co-production, Tora! Tora! Tora!, about the attack on Pearl Harbor...
...rituals: she got her nails done, she had her sister do her makeup, and she even took a trip to the spray-tanning parlor. Later that evening, she and her boyfriend, Chris Raffo, took pictures at his parents' house. But instead of joining the rest of her classmates at Pearl River Central High School, in Carriere, Miss., for their last big hurrah, Lott and Raffo dined in an Italian restaurant and drove to New Orleans for a quiet evening in the French Quarter. Lott, 18, had desperately wanted to go to her prom, but not without Raffo, 21, a Marine...
...Pressure In the interview with U.S. director of National Intelligence John Negroponte [April 24], TIME should have asked whether he realizes that another Pearl Harbor is around the corner. It will be not a military attack but a political and economic blow that will cripple the U.S. Tehran and Moscow share a common interest: to drastically reduce the political power of the U.S. in the Middle East. In the past few months, Tehran has bluntly positioned itself as the pre-eminent country opposing the U.S.-the first step before trying to boot the U.S. out of the region...