Word: rai
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...quality of movies was way off this year. The festival jury, which was led by French director Patrice Ch?reau and included Bollywood diva Aishwarya Rai and Chinese actor-director Jiang Wen, deemed only four films worthy of prizes?the lowest number in memory. They also went out of their way to reward movies that were moderate in tone (except for Elephant): the winners included a genial comedy-drama about a dying professor (French Canada's The Barbarian Invasions), a minimalist study of two cousins getting on each other's nerves (the Turkish Uzak), and the one Asian awardee, At Five...
...visitors than your national treasures? Thailand has made various attempts to play down, and then clamp down on, the sex and drugs that have titillated and lured the wrong kind of visitors?but to no avail. The newest approach is a mingling of high and low culture in Chiang Rai province's royally sponsored Mae Fah Luang Foundation's Hall of Opium. There is a certain brilliance to marketing the infamy of the Golden Triangle. This is one of those rare nether regions that lives up to the swashbuckling image that its name evokes. Highways crisscrossing Chiang Rai province...
This week’s strike comes nine months after Yale dismissed John R. Stepp, a consultant from Restructuring Associates Inc. (RAI) agreed upon by both parties and hired by the university to facilitate negotiations...
...RAI issued a report on January 14, 2002, just a month before negotiations began, which made three recommendations: union organizing and university growth must be addressed, the university must change its management style and the parties must use a non-traditional negotiating process to address those issues...
...resulting procedure was “interest-based negotiating,” which asks the parties to identify its key issues rather than staking out positions in an attempt to find common ground. RAI trained negotiation teams from both the university and unions in the process...