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...last October. Even the Japanese developer of the Shanghai World Financial Center admits that a real estate slide has affected tenancy, with just 45% of the tower currently occupied. The hosting of the Olympics by Shanghai's northern rival added insult to injury, even if local papers hastened to note that Shanghai's athletes broke more world records than those from any other Chinese city...
...contemporary Chinese artists, but also emerging talent from more than 20 different countries. ShContemporary ranks as Asia's first international art fair, and the fact that it takes place in Shanghai is no coincidence. Shanghai may be in China, but its ambitions have always extended beyond the Middle Kingdom. Note, for instance, that China's regional bloc with the Central Asian nations - the People's Republic's only formal attempt at international alliance-making - is called the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Of course it's simply named for the city where it was inaugurated, but the point for proud locals...
...couldn’t afford my own camera, I had no way of getting in touch with the president of the country, and I didn’t even know if he had a butcher or a barber, so I abandoned the film idea. [Editor’s note: Mbeki resigned the South African presidency effective today, September 25.]11. FM: How did you spin a film pitch into a novel? CD: When I enrolled for the creative writing course the idea came back to me and it became something different, it became a fable with Mbeki as the inspiration...
...Cuba’s government has refused each time. “I find that the extreme of politics. I don’t think that the people who are starving confuse dignity with starvation,” Gutierrez said. Despite his tough talk, the commerce secretary included a note of optimism in his speech. “There’s a tremendous amount of talent, creativity and vitality,” he said, “and when that is released, Cuba is going to become one of the greatest nations in the world...
...interesting to note that the Obama campaign is starting to pull down some of their efforts to extend the map, as they like to put it, into states that otherwise wouldn't be in play in an election cycle like this," McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis said Monday. "We assume, without fanfare, that he has pulled out of Alaska, where he spent a good deal of media money over the course of the summer. And [I] look forward to him continuing to spend his money in states that we hold significant leads...