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...China Guardian, for one, focuses on the Chinese domestic market. Osian's does the same in India. For now, most of the new players are sticking to the art market's lower and middle tiers to avoid competing with Sotheby's or Christie's. "We're just filling a vacuum in the market," Andreas says. But others are spoiling for a fight. "My dream is for Asia to have her own Christie's and Sotheby's," says Daniel Komala, CEO of Jakarta-based auctioneers Larasati. He says that the firm will open salesrooms in Hong Kong, Amsterdam and Dubai within...
...election has become mired in squabbles over the process of amending the constitution to allow Suleiman to move directly into the presidential palace, forgoing the customary two-year cooling-off period for senior civil servants. The election has been rescheduled for December 17, although analysts suspect that the presidential vacuum could continue until at least into the New Year...
...authority to lead such a drastic transformation: the President of the United States. Unfortunately, says David Orr, the head of environmental studies at Oberlin College and one of the foremost green thinkers in the U.S.: "There has been a leadership failure on this issue. It's been a leadership vacuum...
...looking to inspire candidates to fill that vacuum. He is one of the principal architects of the just released Presidential Climate Action Plan (PCAP), an ambitious to-do list on global warming for the next Administration. PCAP calls on the next President to make climate change his or her signature issue, to spend the first 100 days in office preparing America for a post-carbon world, committing the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions 90% by 2050. It's far grander than anything Congress or any Presidential candidate has proposed, but to Orr climate change is a threat...
...last poses the question, “Where do we go from here?” Throughout, Gomes paints the teachings of Jesus in the radical light in which contemporaries would have viewed them, portraying Jesus as something of a socialist. Gomes doesn’t write in a vacuum, however, and he includes numerous mentions of current socio-political situations—the war in Iraq, Sept. 11, homophobia, and race relations—to convey how Jesus’s teachings apply to the modern world.Yet where Gomes’s book falls short...