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...tracks downplay the innovation of electric/acoustic fusion in favor of emphasizing the blended cultural milieu of the music and Kinshasa. Masanka Sankayi sing one of their songs in French. Bolia We Ndenge introduce an accordion into their music and shout that it “comes from Belgium,” the country’s old colonial master. But the sound of the colonists’ instrument hardly seems imposed; it fits flawlessly into the trance-grooves of the band. The songs unfurl from the musicians’ hands and voices with an irrepressible jubilation. In an essential...
SAMIA AL-DUAIJ Kuwaiti oil executive living in Belgium after two years in Denmark...
...melted down" - a thought Rapley finds "quite repugnant." But the market price for raw copper has leapt 170% since 2003 to more than $4,800 a ton, driven by demand from countries like China and India. And with scrap prices also on a high, police in the U.S., Belgium, Poland, Switzerland and elsewhere are seeing a surge in thefts of items like copper cable and pipes. Thieves may not know much about art, but they know what they like: Moore's Reclining Figure could earn them a quick $9,000 from a chop shop...
...selling book. It is strange to think this campy film was made by the same man, director Rob Marshall, who turned the Broadway show Chicago into such a dazzling cinematic work. As your story noted, Geisha opened in the U.S. to mixed reviews. And deservedly so. Ward Verrijcken Leuven, Belgium Latin American Leftists As a Dominican immigrant getting a master's degree in the U.S., I appreciated your report on the growth of left-leaning governments in Latin America [Jan. 9]. You accurately reflected the views of millions of immigrants here in the U.S.: that it is high time Latin...
...about the map, especially its use of language, has led professional historians to view it with suspicion. "If you look at the text, there are really some things that are a bit strange," says Nicolas Standaert, an expert on the Ming era at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Standaert points to passages circled in red?which the map's legend says are copied from the 1418 map?that contain words or terms not used at that time. Among them is the map's word for the Christian God and its description of what is now the South China...