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...true chanteuse. For her latest album IRM - which will be released on Jan. 26 in the U.S. and most of Europe - she teamed up with eclectic alt-rocker Beck. "He wrote all of the music and lyrics, but we really had an exchange. The album is very close to me," she says. In sessions at Beck's studio in Los Angeles, Gainsbourg tried to inspire him with books like Through the Looking-Glass. He played her beats, watched her react and then "guessed" what she wanted to sing about...
...were firing their Kalashnikovs so close by that I was certain I could hear the bullet casings cascading down onto the roof of the tent. A crowd of women swaddled in black cupped their hands over their veiled mouths to emit a wave of high-pitched ululations - a call of celebration familiar across the Middle East. The 16-year-old bride, draped in a sparkly white gown, henna tattoos running up her arms, sat silent and tearful as she prepared to meet her groom for the first time. I hadn't meant to spend the night in this tiny village...
...woman approached me, visibly angry. Her husband is one of the last remaining detainees in Guantánamo, she said. He had escorted his sister to Afghanistan to marry an Arab fighter but was captured in Kandahar by the Americans. Eight years later, she is waiting for President Obama to close the prison and return her husband. Nearly half of the remaining detainees at Guantánamo are Yemeni; their transfers were halted after the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt. Said Ali al-Shihri, one of several former detainees who reportedly returned to terrorism after their release, is now deputy commander...
...Hitting Close to Karzai's Home...
...middle, then dips and rises at both ends like the prow of a ship, or two prows. Yalies call it the Whale. Meanwhile, at Yale's Morse College, an undergraduate residential complex by Saarinen that was inspired by the plan and proportions of an Italian hill town, something close to a gut renovation is nearly finished. Restoration of the adjoining Stiles College begins in the spring...