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Byline: Susan Shalhoub
WORCESTER - What's really special, said Patrick O'Connell, president of the city's Ancient Order of Hibernians, is when peopl...
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He said the whole development of the new university, which is now 10 years old, has reached a point where it's ready to take off. "The undergraduate programmes I think are quite solid and what we want to do now is to move into the graduate areas, and in keeping with any true university to promote research," said Dr. [Errol Morrison]. The undergraduate offerings are now in engineering, computing, education, liberal studies, health and applied sciences and architecture. "We want to move swiftly to embrace in totality the university and the University of Technology is the national university of Jamaica." He said the University of the West Indies is a regional organisation which tries to embrace the regional mandates, while [UTech] has to look at the needs of Jamaica.
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... under consideration at the International Centre for Settlement of International Disputes. . Finall...
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Scheduled to Open in 2012, Westin Hamburg will be Part of a Landmark Development, including the Highly Anticipated Elbe Philharmonic Hall
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CLEVELAND -- Cuyahoga Community College will offer community cooking classes in Euclid at the newly built culinary kitchen at Shore Cultural Centre. J...
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Pilot China partnership, supported by the U.S. Department of State, will include concerts, master classes, lectures and musical workshops in Beijing as well as performances in Tianjin, Shanghai and Guangzhou
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a formal ceremony in Washington, D.C. today, The Philadelphia Orchestra - one of the world's most renowned cultural ambassadors - signed a historic agreement with the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing to develop a pilot partnership in China, which is set to launch in May 2012. The agreement, signed by Chen Ping, the President of NCPA, and Allison Vulgamore, President and CEO of The Philadelphia Orchestra Association, is the latest aspect of the U.S. Department of State's high-level "People-to- People"...
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'Real Princess and Pea' at Rosewood
KETTERING -- The Kettering Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department and Rosewood Arts Centre are presenting the Kettering Children's Theatre production of "The Real Princess and the Pea" from Friday, Nov. 11, through Nov. 20.
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AGE has not withered Datuk Johari Salleh. He looks great for someone who is 64 and has a debonair charm about him. At a time when most men are retired, he is still busy working. He is a fellow guest lecturer at the Cultural Centre of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and a part-time lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) in Shah Alam.
`His contribution to Malaysian music is immeasurable,' says fellow musician Datuk Ahmad Nawab, his friend of over 12 years. `He is not only a very good musician; he is also a good music arranger and a very nice person.'
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Associate Professor Robyn Sloggett, director of the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation at Melbourne University and one of Australia's foremost forensic investigators of artworks, examined the paintings microscopically and concluded that they were fakes. [...] it's flattering to have someone copying your stuff even though they're trying to make some boodle out of it. Ifs that 5 percent who helped Four Corners to put flesh on the bones of the more scandalous examples of fraud and fakery in Australia's art market, and it's their evidence which - hopefully - will help to clean it up.