April 2009
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Beyonce Sends Her Look-a-like For Personal Art... →
VIENNA (AFP) – US pop star Beyonce has angered a high-brow art museum in Vienna by sending a look-a-like to her own special personal tour of the museum, while she went shopping, according to newspaper reports here Wednesday. Tabloid dailies Oesterreich and Heute said the R&B diva had been due to visit the Albertina, one of the Austrian capital’s most famous museums which attracts around...
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“I experience less of the good I expected from writing these Memoirs; the...”
– “Lacenaire”, The Memoirs of Lacenaire, translated by Philip John Stead.
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China Seeks To Get Rid of Rare Names →
For Ma Cheng and millions of others, Chinese parents’ desire to give their children a spark of individuality is colliding head-on with the Chinese bureaucracy’s desire for order. Seeking to modernize its vast database on China’s 1.3 billion citizens, the government’s Public Security Bureau has been replacing the handwritten identity card that every Chinese must carry with a computer-readable one,...