No British dancer to fill Darcey’s pointe shoes
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- No British dancer to fill Darcey’s pointe shoes
- Backstory: Qatar reformed by a modern marriage
- Ethanol advocates use Brazil as model: Yet sugar cane crop makes…
- Holden job cuts turn political
- India moves from fringes to core
No British dancer to fill Darcey’s pointe shoes
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 6, 2007
Some experts say that British dancers are even being sidelined because they are perceived as the “wrong shape”, with their foreign rivals deemed slimmer, taller – and hungrier for success. Jane Hackett, the director of the English National Ballet School in London, said: “If you look at our leading companies you see that English dancers tend to be in the corps de ballet and that the principal dancers all seem to be from overseas. Either the British-born dancers do not have the potential for long-term success or the national companies are not nurturing home-grown talent and are preferring to buy in talent from overseas. Bussell’s departure from centre stage on Friday will expose just how poorly Britain is represented in the higher levels of the ballet world. Upon her departure, just one of the Royal Ballet company’s 16 principal dancers will be British-born. Article continues advertisement.
Backstory: Qatar reformed by a modern marriage
Christian Science Monitor – Mar 6, 2007
And, to be granted an interview with Mozah, the Monitor’s questions had to be submitted in advance and a transcript of her responses shown to her office. (No changes were requested. ) Nonetheless, there is a nascent, home-grown democracy sprouting here. Qatar’s first elections – for a central municipal council – were held in 1999, and both women and men voted. The 2003 Constitution provides for a 45-seat governmental council – two-thirds of which is elected – and ensures individual freedoms and an independent judiciary. “Any people that want to develop their countries.
Ethanol advocates use Brazil as model: Yet sugar cane crop makes…
Free with registration – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 6, 2007
| Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) (March, 2007). 6–With its heavy use of home-grown fuel, Brazil in some ways could be a model for the U. Brazil, where President Bush will visit this week to discuss.
Holden job cuts turn political
NEWS.com.au – Mar 6, 2007
” ACTU president Sharan Burrow said the Holden jobs were being lost because the Federal Government had not stood up for manufacturing industries. Ms Burrow said the Government had refused to participate in developing a strategic plan for Australia’s manufacturing sector, despite state and territory governments’ involvement. "We need a government that will stand up for Australian jobs and stand up for a home-grown manufacturing industry,” she said. "These latest job cuts take to 2000 the number of jobs axed at Holden in the past two years, and the Federal Government’s neglect of our manufacturing industry has resulted in the loss of 60,000 jobs nationally over the past two years. ” The South Australian Government called for a delay in the Federal Government’s tariff cuts on imported vehicles currently planned for 2010. That prompted a rebuke from Federal Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane who accused Premier Mike Rann of political opportunism while Mr Howard said Australia would not reverse its low tariff approach. "We have decisively changed our attitude towards tariffs in this country,” Mr Howard said.
India moves from fringes to core
Economic Times – Mar 6, 2007
Note that the
Budget has proposed that corporates in sun-rise sectors availing of tax benefits
under section 10A & 10B of the income-tax code would now need to pay minimum
alternate tax, and so would no longer be fully exempt from corporate taxes. Peripheral-economy governments have limited budgetary resources and a surfeit of
tax exemptions or tax expenditure can add up to 50% of tax revenues as here in
India and surely need to reduced and clipped to the bone, for the larger
good. So in this era of
globalisation, national governments in the periphery can best help home-grown
corporates by making it easier for them to overcome market failure in the
markets for knowledge, technology and skills. Such a proactive industrial policy
would require tax incentives for industry to internalise and absorb emerging,
cutting-edge technology and skill sets via research and development. In parallel, it entails
investing more in the quality of tertiary education and publicly funded
research, to have skilled human resources of international standards. It is notable that the Budget
proposals indicate a wider interpretation of R&D for tax purposes, and that
tax incentives would no longer be confined to a few, preferred sectors and
industries. The move makes perfect sense and would expedite spill-overs and
technological gains economy-wide, and would put paid to unhealthy lobbying and
“directly unproductive profit seeking.