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...Ibiza? And why did his wife have power of attorney over the account? Verwaerde didn't miss a beat. He claimed that Savimbi himself had said he could dip into the money. As for his wife, "she was usually the one who picked up the telephone when it rang, so she spoke to Savimbi several times when he called my home," he replied. Revelations such as these have become daily fare at a trial that has opened a window onto the biggest scandal of the Fifth Republic. Verwaerde is one of 37 defendants in the case; others include the former...
...main motivation for preregistration. “The primary goal is to improve instruction,” Wolcowitz told the Faculty. But just as a company’s slogan can aim to conceal its greatest weakness, Wolcowitz’s claim that undergraduates are the reason for preregistration rang hollow to many of the faculty in attendance Tuesday...
...idea that corporate sponsors seek to influence the creative direction of the artists or galleries they sponsor. Can the marriage of art and business succeed? To find out, TIME looked at three countries on the frontier where artistic vision meets financial pressure. LONDON Clear voices, raised in song, rang through St. Paul's Church in London's Covent Garden late last month. The music was "a singing strike" by choristers from the English National Opera (ENO), which faces €1.75 million in debt and whose management has proposed that its core group of 60 singers be reduced by one-third...
...Hong Kong was almost the birthplace of a disastrous pandemic. A strain of avian flu called H5N1 leaped the species barrier and infected 18 people, killing six, before the slaughter of the city's 1.4 million chickens helped stop the spread. Last week, alarm bells rang anew when a local 33-year-old man and his nine-year-old son contracted a similar virus. The father died of pneumonia Feb. 17, while the son remains in stable condition. Officials say the victims were probably infected through contact with chickens while visiting China's Fujian province, and that until H5N1...
...space-time continuum). This kind of specialization is typical of the genre--romance novels are marketed more like computers or Tupperware than books. They are not works of art. They are highly targeted commodities, engineered to a set of tightly controlled specifications. The formula seems to work: romance novels rang up $1.5 billion in retail sales last year...