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...says director Chris Saines, "and that's going to give a whole new burst of engagement with the city." In Brisbane, Australia, Saines' former boss at the Queensland Art Gallery, Doug Hall, is keenly watching what the Kiwis are doing. Since becoming director in 1987, Hall began "a policy shift that took our gaze north and east," he says. Not only has he amassed one of the world's finest collections of modern Asian and Pacific art but, as of August next year, he will have a glassy new gallery in addition to the current one to display...
...face ... Stef yelled, 'I'm hit' and he began emptying a 30-round mag out of his window." Yeager "punched the gas to the floor and the engine raced, but the car stayed stationary." The ex-cop had forgotten that the car he was driving had a manual shift, and had failed to engage the clutch or the gears...
...Friday the center, a spare room in the Pentagon's basement, was humming with activity, fully staffed for handling both the Katrina recovery and preparations for Hurricane Rita, which would hit the Texas and Louisiana coast the next day. Fifteen people on each shift shared six computer workstations with a Special Forces Colonel, Jeff Pounding in charge...
...Bush said at a joint White House news conference with the president of Iraq. “To the extent the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility.” It was a rare moment of candid honesty from this otherwise shift-the-blame administration; but though it took far too long—and though the president’s subsequent Thursday public address conspicuously lacked this air of government humility—we are glad that the Bush finally made this formal recognition...
...ultimate rewards for the winners in the global TV wars could be vast, as viewers upgrade their old cathode-ray tube sets to flat panels and as broadcasters gradually shift from analog broadcasting to higher-quality digital. Japan has already begun digital broadcasting, and all broadcasts will be digital by mid-2011. In the U.S., every new TV will be required to come with a digital tuner by July 2007, and in Germany digital broadcasts will commence in time for the 2006 World Cup soccer tournament...