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...Such concerns come at a critical time for Abdullah, who became Prime Minister two years ago, taking over when his long-serving predecessor Mahathir Mohamad retired. The two men could not be more different. The soft-spoken, affable Abdullah is noted for his non-confrontational, consensus-seeking style, while Mahathir was more blunt and autocratic. When general elections were held a year ago, Abdullah campaigned on a platform of change, promising to root out corruption and to introduce greater transparency in government; he and his political party, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), won a landslide victory. Abdullah quickly...
...Rock-Rock, 1966-67). Psychedelia was supposed to induce a trance-like state with or without drugs - try the effect of the many videos and light shows, like Brits Mark Boyle and Joan Hills' Beyond Image and Son of Beyond Image (1969). With a soundtrack by British progressive rockers Soft Machine, it features projections of colored oil floating on water. Or how about German-born Gustav Metzger's Liquid Crystal Projections (1965/2005), a chill-out room with moving images of colored blobs flung onto the walls - why not turn up, drop in and tune out? tel: (49-69) 2998820; www.schirnkunsthalle.de
...seek additional funds, we need to show that we are using our reserves and other resources.”Kirby added that the FAS would continue the cost-cutting measures he set out in his annual letter this February. Those measures include a “soft freeze” in staff hiring and “continued, careful monitoring of costs that are not related to our highest priorities.”—Staff writer Anton S. Troianovski can be reached at atroian@fas.harvard.edu...
...listed as a planet. Henceforth, it would be considered just another ball of ice in the Kuiper Belt, a swarm of debris orbiting the sun out beyond Neptune. He was on firm scientific ground: many professional astronomers have been leaning that way for years. But people evidently had a soft spot for the runt of the planetary litter. Almost overnight, Tyson became the Grinch Who Stole Pluto...
...well, they were not able to hold off the strong offensive leaders of the Bears, who came in and scored another two goals to clinch the win. “You just get frustrated when that happens,” Kerr said. “When they had a soft goal and then when another one goes in you know it’s almost lights out.” At 73:58 in the game Brown was able to get another goal out of a scramble. Johnson dove for the save but wasn’t able...