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...wood walls is also part of a challenge by the country's largest commercial city to Beijing for the title of China's cultural capital. The multimillion-dollar Shanghai Art Museum, which houses traditional and contemporary Chinese paintings, was only the latest major new public building in a spree that has transformed the coastal megalopolis. Just two years ago, the visiting Cleveland Orchestra had to play in a Shanghai gymnasium because there was no suitable auditorium. But today the city boasts the new art space; the elegant Shanghai Museum for antiquities; the luminous $150 million Grand Theater and concert hall...
...buying spree began when I was a freshman at Wigglesworth Hall," Loud remembers...
...long-lost foster brother, the entertaining sailor Richard Dauntless (Francis Crick '03). Angle is ideally cast as the naive, helpless Robin, who becomes even more inept at doing his daily evil deed once his true identity is revealed, although he is creative in his short-lived crime spree, managing to disinherit his unborn son and forge one of his servant's checks. Crick is extremely convincing as the overly emotional, yet big-hearted sailor Dauntless, although occasionally he tends to swallow some of the song lyrics. But what Crick sometimes loses in verbal communication is more than made...
...would-be thieves size up the campus and pilfer a few backpacks and PalmVs. Although crime has decreased in Cambridge recently because of snow, rain and--unrelatedly--the booming economy, Harvard students still leave burglars every opportunity to grab some booty. From psychologically impaired shoe thieves to the crime spree that jarred Eliot House a few weeks ago, crimes happen here all of the time...
...firestorm by arguing that today's technological innovation and improved efficiency can themselves ignite inflation. His logic? Strong productivity growth raises the outlook for corporate profits, which drives the stock market higher. As equity prices soar, Americans feel wealthier, and that encourages them to continue their wild shopping spree. "The problem is that the pickup in productivity tends to create even greater increases in aggregate demand than in potential aggregate supply," says Greenspan...