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...himself acknowledged, the vast majority of last night’s audience was vocally hostile, as he said is often the case when he makes public appearences in California...
King Fahd, 80, will be remembered in Saudi annals as the great modernizer, a staunch U.S. ally who built hospitals and highways and spent billions upgrading the Saudi armed forces. To minimize friction with Muslim leaders, however, he constantly channeled some of the kingdom's vast oil wealth into religious causes. He carved out a place in Islamic history by supervising a $25 billion expansion of the holy shrines in Mecca and Medina. The King also poured cash into scores of new Islamic universities, which began churning out thousands of fresh religious activists. "But something unexpected happened," notes a former...
...ranging influence on Cantonese youth culture. LMF members have spawned their own clothing lines, inspired a line of popular action figures and are the subject of a documentary that is spinning through filmmaker Louis Tan's editing room right now. They are a one-band, underground entertainment conglomerate, earning vast amounts of street cred instead of big bucks. And whether they like it or not, mainstream acceptance is on its way. Last month, the band performed alongside Countess of Canto-pop Sammi Cheng when she sold out the 20,000-seat Hong Kong Coliseum 11 nights...
...almost devoid of a visual subject matter. Three bold black curves, each crowned with an unassuming hexagon, cut large swaths across the page (not, mind you, the canvass), and converge on a fourth prosaic stroke. It is almost entirely visually uninteresting and the negative space accounts for the vast majority of the framed image. It represents a feat of the intellect, not one of the imagination-it is, again, a scholastic exercise and has little to do with beauty and visual representation. It is perhaps the least apt model for budding visual artists to follow, since it imposes on them...
...this area, Harvard’s vast fiscal assets provide the University with the chance to build up a strong set of resources. HUPD’s officers receive first-responder training in hazardous materials and other areas that could potentially be used to combat terrorism. Several of Harvard’s officers are ex-military officers with extensive security training. In addition, in a clear sign that the department has long been considering Harvard’s possible risk, HUPD had looked into purchasing a bomb-sniffing dog prior to last month’s attacks?...