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...going, their lights off. At the hospital, two male Vietnamese doctors who have been briefed about my arrival lay me on a table to take an X-ray of my foot--or at least they try to. No sooner have I lain down than the air raid sirens blare and I have to be helped into the hospital's bomb shelter, now filling rapidly with doctors and those patients who can be moved...
...cast as a whole demonstrated a great sense of comedy, saluting the blare of trumpets above whenever the word “duty” was mentioned, for instance. Bo Meng ’06, the overly weepy pirate Samuel, and T. Josiah M. Pertz ’05, the Charlie Chaplin waddling Sergeant of Police rounded out this wonderful cast, along with Allison Hymel and Emily Geller who boast perhaps the strongest voices as Mabel’s sisters Edith and Kate...
...Bamako, the capital of Mali, might not have shops selling the latest iPods. Nonetheless, its streets spill over with a steady stream of tunes on tap, played by some of West Africa's greatest musicians. Like Havana, this city of 1 million lives for music. By day, battered taxis blare out foot-stomping beats, while old men cross roads with radios glued to their ears. By night, Bamako is a riot of noise as singers ululate at wedding parties and the city's many music venues crank up the bass...
...Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Lively Bamako, the capital of Mali, might not have shops selling the latest iPods, but its streets spill over with tunes played by some of West Africa's greatest musicians. This city of 1 million lives for music. By day, battered taxis blare out foot-stomping beats, while old men cross roads with radios glued to their ears. By night, Bamako is a riot of noise as singers ululate at wedding parties and the city's many music venues crank up the bass. Perhaps surprisingly, there is more than a little flavor...
...course, I did have a few brief moments of recognition: The unhappy faces of the young Wagner children dressed up as Nordic heroes make me realize that they too, at one point, thought the hysteria had gone too far. And when I enter the empty Wagner living room, loudspeakers blare the ride of the Valkyries, from the only Wagner opera I have experienced live. But in the pension, sappy German love songs make me feel that Wagner is ever distant; I did not find him in Bayreuth. I chat with the pension owner about local cuisine and head...