Today, 4 April 2015

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  • hot news
    • 652 2 Muslim population in S’pore to ‘increase significantly due to migration from Malaysia, India ADHERENTS’ HIGH FERTILITY RATES, YOUTHFUL POPULATION MAIN REASONS FOR GROWTH MALAY MAIL KUALA LUMPUR —Muslims are expected to make up 72.4 per cent of Malaysia’s population in
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    • 559 2 AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR A Malaysian political cartoonist known for lampooning the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition was charged yesterday with nine counts of sedition over a series of Twitter posts criticising the country’s judiciary. The charges against Zulkiflee Anwar Alhaque, better
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    • 549 4  -  Four-hour queue at National Museum to view exhibition on founding Prime Minister ‘THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FORTUNE OF THE NATION’ XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E —The start of the long weekend saw
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    • 549 4 (2nd Edition)  -  Four-hour queue at National Museum to view exhibition on founding Prime Minister ‘THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FORTUNE OF THE NATION’ XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E —The start of the long weekend saw
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    • 418 4  -  XUE JIANYUE SINGAPORE Two Bangladeshi workers, believed to be in their 20s, died and three others were hurt in a fire in the early hours yesterday. The victims are believed to be foreign workers staying in the secondstorey private residential unit along
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    • 417 4 (2nd Edition)  -  XUE JIANYUE SINGAPORE Two Bangladeshi workers, believed to be in their 20s, died and three others were hurt in a fire in the early hours yesterday. The victims are believed to be foreign workers staying in the secondstorey private residential unit along
      PHOTO: DON WONG  -  417 words
    • 855 5 Last-minute surge to join the institution considered a major victory for the country THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING —The sudden rush to join China’s new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) by this week’s deadline, including last-minute applications by countries hardly considered Beijing’s
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    • 855 5 (2nd Edition) Last-minute surge to join the institution considered a major victory for the country THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING The sudden rush to join China’s new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) by this week’s deadline, including last-minute applications by countries hardly considered Beijing’s
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    • 628 8 Only 126,000jobs added in March as analysts blame bad weather, plunging oil prices SLOWDOWN LIKELY TO REINFORCE VIEW THAT RATES SHOULD BE KEPT NEAR ZERO THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON The United States labour market’s year-long streak of robust
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    • 26 7 VIDEO CROSSING THE BORDER TO GREENER PASTURES? Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit tdy.sg/iskandar0402 for the video.
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  • voices
    • 94 9  -  FROM DAVID KWOK NG KAN I applaud the police for setting up a group of community wardens to settle strife among neighbours because of noise. (“‘Community warden’ civilians to assist police with noise complaints”; March 14) But will residents of the precincts and
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    • 403 9  -  FROM PRISCILLA POH BENG HOON While I partly agree that there is “Trouble ahead for stores as e-shop-ping bug bites” (March 21), I also believe firmly that “seeing is believing”. I concur with Al-Futtaim’s head of business in Asia, Mr Kesri
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    • 194 9  -  FROM TEO KUEH LIANG I refer to the letters, “Retail scene here lagging behind regional rivals” and “Local retail businesses struggling with high costs” (both March 23). We may perceive that most of the shopping centres, especially in the city area,
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    • 380 9  -  FROM GEORGE QUEK BOON TIONG I was surprised to read the report, “S’pore to try Belgian football way to success” (April 3), about the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) appointing Mr Michel Sablon as its technical director. Many media organisations
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    • 361 10  -  FROM VIVIEN TAN Last week was eventful and emotional for Singaporeans. Due to myjob, I had the opportunity to speak with youth on the significance of Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s death. Sadly, while they shared similar sentiments with the pioneer generation, many
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    • 254 10  -  FROM CHEONG WING KIAT I refer to the report, “Gushcloud draws up rules on good social media marketing practices” (March 31), about digital media players being in talks with the Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore (ASAS) to create the guidelines.
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  • singapore
    • 675 11  -  More than 26,500 turn up on first day of Travel Revolution Fair held at Marina Bay Sands ORGANISERS PLAN TO HOLD SECOND FAIR IN SECOND HALF OF THE YEAR VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The travel fair organised by a breakaway group of agents
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    • 77 11 A young visitor keeping his balance while walking on the tracks of the former Tanjong Pagar Railway Station yesterday. The defunct station, which was gazetted as a national monument in 2013, remains popular among locals and tourists as a venue for photography and a place to
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    • 371 11  -  JORDON SIMPSON SINGAPORE They are quick to go on the Internet to do research for their schoolwork, but as soon as they find nuggets of information, many do not cross-check its veracity against other resources. Many also cut and paste
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  • world
    • 626 14 Varsity’s regulation is against human rights principles, says Islamic political party WEARING FULL-FACE COVER ‘NOT A THREAT TO INDONESIAN CULTURE’ THE JAKARTA GLOBE JAKARTA —A state university in South Kalimantan has drawn the ire of one of Indonesia’s Islamic political parties for
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    • 691 14 REUTERS THIRUVANANTHAPUR AM (INDIA) —Hundreds of Indian nurses caught up in Yemen’s civil war face a stark choice between returning home to financial ruin and taking a chance by staying on in more lucrative jobs that allow them to pay
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    • 742 15 Analysts see investment as part of a push by Beijing to extend influence in the region REUTERS THLOK TASEK (CAMBODIA) When Defence Minister Tea Banh addressed graduates last month at Cambodia’s prestigious Army Institute, he directed his thanks to the guests
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    • 441 15 REUTERS BANGKOK Thai junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha yesterday defended a controversial security order, two days after the junta lifted martial law, and warned that he would not tolerate criticism of the army, which retains sweeping powers under the new measures. The United Nations human
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    • 461 18 China’s latest move to increase trade and enhance its international infuence involves building a network of railways, highways, oil and gas pipelines as well as other infrastructure links across Asia to as far as Greece, Russia and Oman. Named the One Belt, One Road initiative, the
      Sources: CCTV.com English, The Diplomat, Caixin Online, Foreign Policy magazine, SCMP, The Wall Street Journal; Adolfo Arranz / TODAY  -  461 words


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  • business
    • 577 19 ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY TOWARDS DEFAULT NOT SUSTAINABLE: ANALYSTS THE FINANCIAL TIMES B E I J I N G Two Chinese corporate bonds headed towards what may prove to be precedent-setting default this week, in the latest test of Beijing’s willingness to confront moral
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    • 334 19 REUTERS ATHENS —Greece will pay a loan tranche due on Thursday to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on time, its Deputy Finance Minister said yesterday, seeking to quell fears of default after a flurry of contradictory statements on the issue in recent days.
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    • 337 19 BLOOMBERG S EOU L —Samsung Electronics will manufacture the main chip in Apple’s next iPhone model, regaining a customer previously lost to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Samsung will start making Apple A9 processor
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  • sports
    • 239 20 SINGAPORE —Teenager Jet Ng has achieved Singapore’s best performance at the Fencing Cadet and Junior World Championships. Jet, who turns 17 next month, finished fifth out of 91 competitors in the men’s foil event at the meet in Uzbek capital
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    • 224 20 SINGAPORE The Cubs Programme, a pilot grassroots programme by the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) that aims to grow the pool of young football talent here, will kick off with a soft launch tomorrow at Sembawang Primary School. For now, it
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    • 655 20  -  With SEA Games looming, meet will show Republic’s women athletes where they stand FEATURING COMPETITORS FROM 12 COUNTRIES SUCH AS THAILAND, INDONESIA, HK LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —At the previous Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, Singapore have not featured prominently among the medals in track
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    • 474 21  -  ADRIAN CLARKE LONDON —Harry Kane was born on July 28,1991, the same day Michael Carrick celebrated his 12th birthday, but that is not the only thing both have in common. Right now, they are being hailed as the men to take Roy
      PHOTOS: REUTERS  -  474 words
    • 682 21  -  COMMENTARY BY ADRIAN CLARKE ADRIAN CLARKE sports@mediacorp.com.sg Adrian Clarke is a former Arsenal midfielder who has played at every level of English football. Now an experienced sports journalist, he writes for publications around the world. Follow him on Twitter @adrianjclarke Brendan Rodgers
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    • 325 22 SET TO SURPASS PAY-PER-VIEW REVENUE RECORD SET BY MAYWEATHER-ALVAREZ FIGHT AP L A S V EG A S —Do not expect much change back from a US$100 bill to watch the Floyd Mayweather JrManny Pacquiao fight at home. The suggested retail
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    • 240 22 AP B E IJ I NG —China’s former Olympic champion hurdler Liu Xiang plans to announce his retirement next week following years of nagging injuries, a local newspaper reported yesterday. The Shanghai native has not competed since withdrawing at the London Olympics in 2012
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    • Article, Illustration
      391 22 AGENCIES MIAMI 88 CLEVELAND 114 LeBron James is now 20th on the NBA’s all-time scoring list with 24,837 points to move past retired New York Knicks centre Patrick Ewing’s 24,815 points. A first-quarter hook shot by the Cleveland Cavaliers forward gave him 24,816 career points to move past
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 82 22 For the latest live’ telecast listing, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg iw mww! Live wire (MBS) Livewire (RWS) (21 years and above) Livewire (Singapore Pools) (21 years and above during live’ telecast) SB SportsBuzz@Kranji (18 years and above) Ip Y(i> Always play with care. Do not bet illegally. Singapore Pools Account Service. Call
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    • 86 23 SATURDAY, 4 APRIL 2015 BONJOUR,S I N GA P OU R THE LION CITY’S ARTISTIC TIES WITH FRANCE GO BACK A LONG WAY, WITH MANY SINGAPORE ARTISTS DEVELOPING THEIR CRAFT THERE 24 EMILY REDUX KAREN TAN’S INTERPRETATION OF EMILY OF EMERALD HILL MAKES THE ICONIC CHARACTER MORE HUMAN 26 DARK
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    • culture&lifestyle
      • 2219 24  -  SINGAP RE’S ARTS FEST IN FRANCE HIGHLIGHTS THE LONG ARTISTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg Early this week, the people of Toulouse woke up to find their city occupied by almost 1,000 tiny people who came all the way from Singapore. They
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      • 826 26  -  Family values at the forefront of this version of the classic play THEATRE REVIEW: EMILY OF EMERALD HILL MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The visual arts may have come out with the first big SG50 event in LASALLE’s Institute of Contemporary Arts’ Artists Imagine A Nation in
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      • 237 26  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE With the passing of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew last week, the arts scene’s usually frenetic schedule slowed down as a mark of respect before slowly getting back into its usual groove. The rich history of the local theatre scene was put
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      • 570 27  -  KEVIN MATHEWS SINGAPORE It’s fair to say that in terms of general public acceptance, the Singapore theatre scene is miles ahead of its indie music counterpart. Thus, an opportunity for the two worlds to collide in a kind of cross-pollination should be warmly received by both
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 1179 28 CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg CHANNEL tellchannel8@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM Folks Jump Over The Wall (Last Episode) 6.30 Sizzling Woks 7.00 Mrs P.I. (HD) (Last Episode) 9.00 Pleasant Goat And Big Big Wolf VI 9.30 Happy Family Family Of Joy 10.00 Follow Me! (HD) (Last Episode) 10.30 Heritage Hunters (HD) 11.00 The Voice Of China
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    • 1153 29 CHANNEL CHANNEL tellchannel8@mediacorp.com.sg tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg CHANNEL tellchannelu@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM Talking Point (HD) 7.00 JML TV Home Shopping (Paid Presentation) 8.00 The Dr Oz Show IV (HD) 9.00 Wheel Of Fortune XXX (HD) 10.00 The Queen Latifah Show (HD) 11.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show XII (HD) (PG) 11.40 Just For Laughs Gags XIII
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    • 314 30 ON SATURDAY 5.00PM 987 HOME With Joakim Gomez 6.00 Say It With Music With Naomi Yeo 10.00 Automated 11.00 987 Anthems By Zouk And The AOS Collection DJs 6.00AM News Plus The Best Of Body Soul With Daniel Martin 10.00 News Plus Weekend Brunch And Out And About With Angela
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  • 885 1  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY WASHINGTON—Already struggling to navigate the chaos engulfing much of the Middle East, the United States is now dipping its toe into another conflict. In Yemen, the Obama administration has been supporting a Saudi-led
    INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; KHALID MOHAMMED/ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  885 words
  • 1198 1  -  A guide assuages teenagers’ fear of not having a significant legacy. By JAN JAN HOFFMAN INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Tumors had disfigured AshLeigh McHale’s features and spread to her organs. A year ago, AshLeigh, 17, flew from her home in Catoosa, Oklahoma, to the National Institutes of
    INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; MICHAEL KIRBY SMITH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  1,198 words
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  • WORLD TRENDS
    • 863 2  -  INTELLIGENCE IBSEN MARTiNEZ Ibsen Martínez is a Venezuelan playwright and novelist. His latest novel is “Simpatía por King Kong.” Send comments to intelligence@nytimes.com. THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY In cruelly polarized Venezuela, mired in a disastrous economy and swept by criminal violence, baseball culture has
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; FERNANDO LLANO/ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  863 words
    • 566 2  -  By JOE COCHRANE and THOMAS FULLER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SINGAPORE—Among the many orders that Lee Kuan Yew issued during his five decades as leader of Singapore was the razing of his home. “I’ve told the cabinet, ‘When I’m dead, demolish it,’
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; STEPHEN MORRISON/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY  -  566 words
    • 765 3  -  By ANDREW ROTH THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY AVDIIVKA, Ukraine The armored Mercedes-Benz pulled up to a factory chimney discharging an endless column of milk-white steam and out stepped Musa Magomedov, the broad-shouldered, 45-year-old general director of the Avdiivka Coke and Steel plant.
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; BRENDAN HOFFMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES.; THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  765 words
    • 770 3  -  By ADAM NOSSITER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY NDJAMENA, Chad Idriss Déby, the president of Chad, speaks in a soft mumble, wears glasses and is to be found in the quiet inner recesses of a gilt-edged, marble presidential palace under crystal chandeliers and vaulted
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    • 584 5  -  LENS TESS FELDER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY It has often been lamented in this age of texting and Twitter messages that people especially young people, who usually face the brunt of blame for such things have lost the art of spelling and writing
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; ULI SEIT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  584 words
    • 841 5  -  By ALISON SMALE THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY BERLIN Even in the nightmarish aftermath of the plane crash in the French Alps on March 24, Carsten Spohr, the former pilot who runs Germany’s Lufthansa airline, was sure of one thing: the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz,
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; HENDRIK SCHMIDT/DPA, VIA AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES  -  841 words
    • 704 6  -  By JARED MALSIN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY AL AQALTAH, Egypt She has worked for more than 30 years among the shoeshine men of Luxor. She sits with men in coffee shops, prays with them in the local
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; BRYAN DENTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  704 words
    • 620 6  -  By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN KABUL, Afghanistan Indignant, the Islamic law student told her family about the superstitious practices she had seen earlier at a historic shrine in Kabul. On that day in March, she had seen mullahs sell good-luck charms and visitors convinced that prayers
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  • MONEY & BUSINESS
    • 586 8  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By NEIL IRWIN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY In India, a leading electric utility, Jaiprakash Power Ventures, is selling off facilities and negotiating with lenders to avoid a default, having increased its debt thirtyfold in six years. In China, one of the
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; Source: Bloomberg; THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  586 words
    • 854 8  -  By QUENTIN HARDY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Of the roughly 200 buildings that once stood on the 525-hectare campus of Eastman Kodak’s business park in Rochester, New York, 80 have been demolished and 59 others sold off. Terry Taber, 60, and a loyal
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; NATHANIEL BROOKS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  854 words

  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    • 679 9  -  By JOHN MARKOFF THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The thermal imaging systems used by the French police to find the two brothers suspected in the Charlie Hebdo massacre back in January are based on a rapidly evolving technology now turning up in hospitals, airports
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; CHOE JAE-KOO/YONHAP, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  679 words
    • 909 9  -  By PAM BELLUCK THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY What happens to forgotten memories say, old computer passwords and friends’ old phone numbers? Scientists have long held two theories. One is that older memories do not diminish but get
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    • 810 10  -  By JACK HEALY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY CAPISTRANO BEACH, California By the time Wendy Leeds reached him, the sea lion pup had little hope of surviving. Like more than 1,450 other sea lions that have washed up on California beaches this
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; PHOTOGRAPHS BY KENDRICK BRINSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  810 words
    • 606 10  -  By KENNETH CHANG THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts If a glue did not stick to the inside of the bottle, you might think it must not be a very good glue. But clinging glue has annoyed generations of parents and children
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  • NEW YORK ARTS
    • 759 11  -  By CHARLES McGRATH THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY In the wrong hands, “The King and I” could feel a little Disneyish. And then there’s the Yul Brynner problem. It was Mr. Brynner who put his stamp on the role of the
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  759 words
    • 813 11  -  By RANDY KENNEDY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY As a pastoral sculpture socked into the heart of a metropolis, Central Park has fascinated and provoked artists for decades. Claes Oldenburg hired gravediggers to excavate and refill a hole in it, to form an
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    • 826 12  -  By CAROL VOGEL THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY When the Whitney Museum of American Art opens its new building in Manhattan’s meatpacking district on May 1, it’s the big things everyone will notice first: the sweeping views west to the
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; CHANG W. LEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES; BELOW, NICOLE BENGIVENO/THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  826 words
    • 524 12  -  By STACEY ANDERSON THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Standing inside a large ring of amateur dancers in front of a stage cluttered with brass instruments and conga drums, Chris Rogicki demonstrated Cuban salsa moves that could have been mistaken
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  • ARTS & DESIGN
    • 772 13  -  By RACHEL DONADIO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY YASNAYA POLYANA, Russia On a sunny afternoon, Vladimir Tolstoy, a great-great-grandson of Leo Tolstoy and an adviser on cultural affairs to President Vladimir V. Putin, strode up the birchlined path that leads to the
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