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...Kagame said that while these transformative technologies have facilitated upward mobility among micro-entrepreneurs, Africa still lacks the critical mass of scientists necessary to lead the propagation of science and technology...
...Modern Language Association report issued last November cited the steady rise of student enrollment in Chinese language courses nationwide, spotting a 50 percent hike from 2002-2006. Harvard enrollment figures have shown an upward trend over the same time period. 2005 saw the enrollment of 273 Chinese language students, followed by 348 the following year, and roughly 350 last year...
...Republic, and then The Nation, Manny built his caviar reputation. By now he was in New York, pursuing his three careers, befriending the right people in the Abstract Expressionist world and in magazine criticism. (Can't say whether he also hobnobbed with the top carpenters.) Like an assiduous upward-achiever, he was trying to get noticed; he didn't succeed enough to suit him. Even in his late collages, Manny was craving the attention of the art-critical establishment. A scrap on his painting Batiquitos reads: "Heaven to be noticed by Roberta Smith or [Adam] Gopnik...
...personally enduring and bearing witness to some of the greatest tragedies of a tragic century, he still believed that life could and would evolve and improve. "The ascension is similar to climbing onto the next anthropological stage," he said. "No one on earth has any other way left but upward...
...Even so, the attempts to illuminate the life of a neglected master, and to establish his position in relation to contemporary Indonesian artists, make this show welcome. At a time when auctions are pushing Indonesian art prices ever upward, distinguishing the great from the good is becoming difficult. "This is a museum show and it explores the intellect," says Jasdeep Sandhu, owner of Singapore's Gajah Gallery. "That's very much needed...