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...such luxury is afforded, for instance, to recent China visitor Tom Albanese, the American CEO of the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, for which China is now the largest market. On the same day that Google switched off its Chinese filters, four of Albanese's employees went on trial in Shanghai on corruption charges. If he still believed (as many in the foreign business community did when the four were arrested in 2009) that the trial was retribution for a soured deal with Chinalco, China's huge state-owned aluminum producer, he wasn't showing it. He wasn...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences administration’s work to restore the department’s visitor budget constituted a “key ingredient” in the reinstatement of the junior seminar program, Campbell said...
...Slightly disappointed that there won't be any live specimens prancing about, we follow O'Rahilly down a long, tapered tunnel meant to shrink the visitor - psychologically, at least - to leprechaun size. The first room is a re-creation of the Giant's Causeway, the legendary hexagonal rock formation in County Antrim that in Irish folklore is prime hunting ground for leprechauns. Then we reach the museum's inner sanctum: the Rainbow Room, where the pristine arc of a rainbow has been fashioned out of velvety multicolored ropes. At the end of the rainbow, naturally, is where the leprechaun...
...bridge the potential cultural divide, McLaughlin worked with Thunder Hawk to make the exhibit into a sensory experience that immerses the visitor in the sounds, images, and even smells associated with Lakota culture. “We thought about how people experience cultures,” McLaughlin says. “We decided that it had to be ambient and appeal to people’s senses—[to emphasize] not words and text but colors and shapes and sounds...
...inmates of Ashecliffe hospital look at the new visitor with stares that might be pleading or warning. U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) has come with his partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) to isolated Shutter Island in Boston Harbor to track down an escaped patient from the insane asylum. But that is only one of the enigmas Teddy must unravel. The doctors who run the institution, Cawley (Ben Kingsley) and Naehring (Max von Sydow), often respond to Teddy's questions with strange smiles whose meaning eludes both him and the audience. Teddy too has dark secrets: searing memories...