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DOHA, QATAR Museum of Islamic Art Designed by I.M. Pei, this 376,740-sq.-ft. (35,000 sq m) museum's collection spans three continents and 13 centuries...
...technical skill, but lacks in anything beyond physical attraction. Kind of like Sarah Palin. Politics aside, watching the video is like reading a good book. I felt like I had just figured out the meaning of life. Now, if only I could remember it. —Olivia S. Pei...
...designer dogs meant to give you the best of both breeds: a Labradoodle, a Peke-a-Poo, a Bagle (half basset, half beagle). A candidate seeking a bully pulpit might like the Bullypit (a bulldog-pit-bull mix). Or he could go for a Sharmatian--part Chinese Shar-Pei, part Dalmatian--and get the whole East-and-West, black-and-white thing in a single pooch...
...museums around the world are starved of cash? A few days after Cason Thrash's party, one of the attendees, Max Blumberg, a wealthy Floridian who made his money in lighting, sits in his exquisitely decorated Paris pied-à-terre opposite the Tuileries gardens, with a view of I.M. Pei's pyramid, and provides the answer. "The name of the Louvre has magical powers in the world of art," he says. "We don't look at it as France and America. The great world museums are global enterprises for all people." And then of course, there's Loyrette, constantly...
...Pei estimates that corruption in China costs the economy about 3% of GDP, which was $2.7 trillion in 2006. While 3% may not seem like a huge amount, Pei notes that it is roughly equal to China's total annual education spending. There is a less tangible but more dangerous cost. Government graft "undercuts the legitimacy of the Communist Party," says Dali Yang, director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore. "Ruling élites, perceived by the population as irredeemably rapacious and self-serving, enjoy little popular legitimacy and would more likely get overthrown...