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...Hong Kong will build a new arts center, which everyone in the territory's cultural community agrees is long overdue. The complex, which will occupy a 40-hectare swath of reclaimed harborside land in Kowloon, is in the final planning stages. The guidelines at present do not call for a symphonic concert hall, an omission De Waart condemns bitterly. "It is the death knell of an orchestra if it doesn't have its own home," he says. "Right now, we have a gigantic venue problem in Hong Kong?we must book soloists years in advance, but when they show...
Stronach, 37, has already cut a swath among the world's corporate elites. Magna, founded by her Austrian-immigrant father Frank in a rural Ontario tool-and-die shop, has offices in 22 countries and a global workforce of 75,000. But Stronach's philanthropic interests, which include running a national education foundation, took her beyond a focus on the bottom line. As she campaigned across Canada's vast distances this winter, some admirers were already comparing her to the young Margaret Thatcher. "She generated significantly more glamour than I could bring," conceded Stephen Harper, 45, the victor...
...that, the U.S. has only a rough idea of where bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, are hiding. A Pakistani tribal elder told TIME he believes bin Laden may be holed up somewhere in a sprawling, mountainous swath of territory that extends from Khost, in eastern Afghanistan, south to Angoorada, in the Waziristan region of Pakistan. According to diplomats in Kabul, the area's unique vegetation was seen in bin Laden's latest videotaped statement. The tension in the border region is already high. On Saturday, Pakistani soldiers shot up a bus that tried to force...
...Ambassador to Haiti James Foley warned the rebels that ?their credibility is entirely on the line? if they ignore their pledge to disarm. His concern is widely shared: A wide swath of the rebel army has links to some of the most brutal military abuses of Haiti?s recent past, including massacres of civilians committed during the three-year army dictatorship that aborted Aristide?s first presidency in 1991, until a U.S. intervention restored Aristide to power...
...begin after Indian elections due to be held in April, and to include negotiations over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. A Last Attempt? HAITI President Jean-Bertrand Aristide accepted an international peace plan aimed at ending the violence that has seen armed rebels take control of a large swath of the north of the country. However, neither the political opposition nor the rebels immediately endorsed the proposal, which would see Aristide remaining in office with reduced powers. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Safe as Houses British drivers nervous about car theft now know where to park their cars. Science magazine...