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...most popular writers in France. As far back as 1994, a poll by a French literary magazine found Le Clézio listed as the greatest writer in the French language. (Never one to show much, if any, emotion, Le Clézio responded to the result by saying, "I would have put Julien Gracq...
...result is a strange but nourishing stew of interviews, anecdotes and entries from Glass' diary that lay bare Gray's high self-esteem, but also capture his reckless enthusiasm for every project that takes his fancy; his poems, plays, political treatises, paintings, drawings and even typography all deftly recycle the stuff of his own life story. Born in Glasgow's East End in 1934, Gray was always as at home with words and pictures as he was set apart from society by his lifelong asthma and eczema. At Glasgow's School of Art, he specialized in mural-painting before graduating...
...storm over the taxing of "non-doms" - wealthy foreigners who move to Britain and are taxed only on their U.K. income. Following last month's rescues of HBOS and Bradford & Bingley, the big question now is what sort of new regulatory measures will be put in place as a result of the current market meltdown. Fraser, the City's policy head, is hoping that any changes will be peripheral. "We'd be in much greater danger if financial services accounted for just 3% of the economy," he says. "Politicians recognize it as an important industry and are sensitive...
...result: a seamless blending of reality and parody. When voters close their eyes now and envision Public Palin, likely as not they see Tina...
Lipson, who started the publicly traded company 27 years ago to sell equipment like ultrasound machines to China's then generally ill-equipped public hospitals, says she first approached officials about a private-model health-care experiment in the early 1990s. The result was Beijing United Family Hospital and Clinics, a joint venture between Chindex and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Today Chindex runs two hospitals and five outpatient centers. Additional hospitals in Beijing and Guangzhou are set to open in 2010, and two more outpatient clinics will open this year...