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...last British Governor, in which Patten was critical of Beijing. In 1999 Murdoch even derided the Dalai Lama, Beijing's longtime foe, as "a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes." News Corp. hired an American adviser last year to help China's state-run TV station spruce up the propaganda on its English channel, which is carried on News Corp.'s DirecTV (as well as Time Warner cable systems...
...each title. Critics said Tate Modern chose this nontraditional arrangement to cover up the museum's weaknesses, particularly in works from the first half of the 20th century. Curator Frances Morris prefers to accent the positive, saying that the huge spaces in Tate Modern's home, a former power station, presented an opportunity "to explore the strengths of the collection." Those experiments were being closely watched at the Pompidou, France's National Museum of Modern Art. While appreciating their thematic approaches, Grenier felt that MOMA and Tate had simply given updated names to academic definitions. "The organization was still...
...this what Penguin thinks the Arab world really is...empty deserts and exotic dancing girls?" Meanwhile, as the genre's 51 million readers pump gas this summer, will they be dreaming of oil sheikhs in exotic kingdoms or eternal supplies of fuel in the arms of a gas station owner...
...They were Shi'ites but confessed to being hit men on the payroll of Ansar al-Sunnah, a Sunni rebel group. What's more, they revealed the names of several informers in Washash. As word of the capture began to circulate, families of the victims flocked to the police station, seeking the names of the assassins. One relative told TIME that police officers demanded a $500 bribe before giving out the informers' names, and in the spirit of revenge, the sum was gladly paid...
...will give NASA the credit it is due instead of bashing the agency about a few chunks of foam. The camera that allowed technicians to see the insulation foam provided information about damage that was assessed and fixed. I believe NASA got it right. After all, the International Space Station has been restocked, the new safety systems (cameras, sensors, etc.) worked perfectly, and all seven American astronauts are back on solid ground having been confident that the agency had the ability to get them home safely...