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Musicians performing in different languages often strike similar chords. Listen to the intense, undulant wail of Assane Ndiaye on the song Nguisstal, a track on Streets of Dakar: Generation Boul Fale, a compilation of young Senegalese acts. Boul fale is a Wolof phrase that means, loosely, "Never mind." The American punk group Nirvana's seminal album of teen angst was also titled Nevermind. Alienation, it seems, is a nation without borders...
...crazy, she is fascinating. Just for kicks she dresses up like a bum, smears on a charcoal mustache, goes tramping along the Boul' Mich in broad daylight. She keeps her love letters in a chamber...
...guest to a waiting Citroën for the ten-mile motorcade to the Kennedys' residence in Paris, the Palais des Affaires Etrangeres on the Quai d'Orsay. In deference to onetime (1950) Sorbonne Student Jackie, who followed in a car with Madame de Gaulle, the route included the famed Boul' Mich'?cobblestoned main drag of the university district?before crossing the Seine into downtown Paris...
...Minister Fidel Castro's planned invasion of the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. "Haitian exiles are being trained in Havana," said Duvalier. Exhorting his people to fight back, he raised the war cry of famed Patriot Jean Jacques Dessalines (1758-1806): "Coupe tetesl Boulé cailles!" (Cut off heads! Burn houses...
...care for mentally ailing students the Sorbonne has pitifully inadequate resources. On the "Boul' Mich'," a dentist's office is a psychological consultation center after hours (Saturday afternoon and after 6 p.m. on weekdays). Manned mainly by psychiatrists−who are called psychologists to avoid upsetting students who cannot face the reality of their condition−it dealt with 72 patients in May, still had 36 last week although vacations were beginning. Six miles from the city's center, at Sceaux, is a 15-bed university home for more serious but still "benign" cases. Last week...