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...australian diplomat will admit, managing the bilateral relationship with China is a relentless, high- energy task. The volume of issues that are in play at any time - for instance, trade and investment, uranium sales, human rights, tourist visas, students, intellectual property, military exercises, official delegations and Taiwan - makes for a great deal of bureaucratic and political work. Factor in the increasing intensity of engagement across the board (as well as the pace of globalization more generally) and it's clear that Canberra's China nannies are a busy bunch. A single incident or issue - hardball iron-ore price negotiations...
...life I have reconstructed my life through painting," Botero says. "That is why painting is so sacred to me. It saves me in my worst moments." And that is why he describes the life he now lives as the happiest possible, working at a pace some would consider relentless. For him it's a joyful release. "I have so much pressure to work," says Botero. "I haven't found anything that amuses me more. And at my age, you have to enjoy life...
Director Gordon Davidson gives the play a bristling, relentless staging, with full awareness of the comic possibilities in Dick Cheney's glum realism and Donald Rumsfeld's chipper heedlessness--and of the shadowy hints of tragedy in Colin Powell's ambiguous role. Stuff Happens may be overlong, but it is often very good theater--especially when it is, as it were, on the record, re-creating the known absurdities (and apparent lies) of Establishment figures enabling a mysteriously driven leader. Power, in this play, does not exactly corrupt, but it does render people giddy with their essentially unchallenged ability...
...group has since developed what Drake calls a “fusion of funk and boy-band pop and ’80s synth music.” “Tommy and the Tigers” has even forayed into French rap and Chinese/hip-hop fusion. And Lowe is relentless in his efforts to promote his group...
...been open season on Harvard’s leader since he wandered outside the lingua franca of gender politics at an economics conference in January. From a thrashing on the “Today” show to the cover of Time Magazine, the onslaught has been relentless and brutal...