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...when De Niro and DiCaprio flanked their frequent director Martin Scorsese - bestowing upon him the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement - as Scorsese argued passionately for film preservation, quoting William Faulkner's "The past is never dead. It's not even past." At that moment it didn't matter who threw the party; it mattered only that the best movie people made it a memorable...
...Entitled "Thrice Upon a Time: A Century of Story in the Art of the Philippines," the show - hung alongside a separate collection of modernist works on loan from the Ateneo Art Gallery in Manila - runs at the Singapore Art Museum until Jan. 31. Underscoring its importance to the Philippines' often battered image abroad, the show was opened by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo herself. In doing so, she was obliged to march briskly past one of the more cheeky exhibits: a bottled collection of pungent smells, including an essence of rotten eggs labeled PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT...
...badly trailing the domestic Chinese search company Baidu. But it isn't just that Google has struggled. All of the New Economy western companies in the media and information business have failed to establish themselves in China. Before Google, eBay and Yahoo both made investments of years and millions upon millions of dollars to tap the fast-growing Internet generation in China, and like Google, they could not gain traction. Both companies ended up pulling the plug on their China ventures, with eBay losing out to domestic Chinese auction company Taobao, and Yahoo ceding its operations for an ownership stake...
...didn’t drink in high school, here’s your chance to do so without having to worry about getting caught by your parents. Just make sure not to give them a late-night call. With any luck, your hosts will take it upon themselves to ensure that you pregame right. If you are not so fortunate, find one of the 50 new best friends that you met at the regional reception and go out with them...
...Merkel has been at loggerheads with the FDP over tax reform for months. The FDP has insisted that the government stick to the compromise agreed upon during the coalition talks to introduce additional tax cuts worth $35 billion in 2011. But given Germany's soaring budget deficit, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, a member of the CDU, is now reportedly looking to postpone the tax cuts until after...