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...also houses the local branch of the Beijing Art Now Gallery, www.artnow.cn, which opened at the beginning of the year and like its parent is tasked with identifying the very best contemporary Chinese art for major museum buyers. Be warned though: while the interiors at M50 may look rough and industrial, neither the art nor the coffee and cake in the piazza come cheap...
...total, and Housman, who didn’t have a point until 12:00 minutes left in the game, led the Crimson to a much-needed win with his late-game heroics. “I’m not going to stop shooting because I had a rough game and made some turnovers,” Housman said. “I should keep being aggressive even though I had a rough first three quarters.” —Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu...
...materials - bamboo, coconut wood, terracotta - that are sustainable, often recycled and highly suitable for regions liable to geological disturbances and flooding. Immediately after the quake, this self-styled "village architect" used Japanese and Indonesian aid money to build more than 130 shelters. He hoped the design of the rough-and-ready structures would serve as models for local villagers, encouraging them to give up their attachment to concrete - seen as a symbol of modernity and affluence - and return to the kinds of building materials used throughout the archipelago for centuries. Eighteen months later, the shelters are still occupied...
Embattled heads of government often find solace in foreign affairs. At a comfortable remove from the rough-and-tumble of domestic politics, they can cultivate a statesmanlike image on the international stage. No such luck for Gordon Brown, Britain's Prime Minister: a nasty scandal brewing in the U.K. followed him all the way to Uganda. It was there, he says, on the eve of his return from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala, that he learned that the Labour Party's General Secretary Peter Watt had accepted donations for party coffers in a potentially criminal breach...
...sides can agree on that much, what's holding them back? The answer is the rough-and-tumble of Israeli and Palestinian domestic politics, on one hand, and, on the other, a past tendency toward unsuccessful brinksmanship in negotiations. It's also a failure on the part of the international community, in particular of the U.S., to uphold a vision of peace and pressure the parties, Israelis as well as Arabs, to work out the necessary details. The Clinton administration waited until its final six months in office to tackle the main issues of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. The Bush...