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Several centuries later, José González, a young musician of Argentinean descent raised among the fjörds of Sweden, embarks on a similar aesthetic odyssey with his debut album “Veneer...
...interior minister who heads the ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), yet regularly issues pithy calls for a total "rupture" of the status quo politics of President Jacques Chirac and his current prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, and a more radical free-market agenda. Merkel's slow descent into parity with the Social Democrats, says political scientist Dominique Reynie, is "bad news for Sarkozy. It turns out he's making the same mistake as Merkel: talking about a 'rupture' in a country that is afraid...
...Mike’s descent toward the inferno at the bottom of Manhattan is reminiscent of Dante’s journey to the depths of Hell in “The Divine Comedy.” Mike is separated from his girlfriend Jane during the chaotic hours after the attacks, evoking memories of the pair of lovers in Dante’s epic – Francesca and Paulo – who are tossed around by the “stormy blast of Hell.” McDonell’s image of a turban-wearing taxi driver...
...culture” (emphasis added). In fact, the Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival, PANAFEST, is primarily an Arts and Culture festival, according to , and as such other festivals it promotes a united spirit among its participants—in this case, “Africans and people of African descent as well as all persons committed to the well being of Africans on the Continent and in the Diaspora.” While the author’s choice to exclude himself from the spirit of the festival a priori is surprising, the inferences he draws from his self-exclusion...
...sound of twin sonic booms just after 8 a.m. ET never sounded so good to NASA, signalling re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere after the craft and its heat shield tiles survived the hottest part of the descent at some 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. "We're happy to be home," Discovery commander Eileen Collins transmitted to NASA from the Edwards runway. NASA was happy too-although everyone would have been even happier had they landed in Florida, as scheduled. Unfortunately, cloud cover and lightning forced the landing in California...