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There is no fog of war at 20,000 ft. above Afghanistan. For nearly three years, as U.S. warplanes and drones hit targets spread across the country's corrugated, dun-colored mountains and green poppy-growing valleys, every mission detailed by the Air Force in its daily "airpower summary" has been deemed a success. In July, B-1 bombers began striking Afghan targets with 500-lb. bombs guided to their prey by a new targeting pod slung under the plane's belly. Known as the Sniper, the pod sends long-range, high-resolution video--it can tell whether an Afghan...
...have any plans to integrate Chinese music into your classical Western canon? -Li You, Apex, N.C.Recently I've worked with a few great Chinese composers. Tan Dun had this concept of a kung-fu piano concerto--lots of extreme finger movement and using elbows and palms to play. It was like watching Jackie Chan fight...
Ethiopiques will be appearing at New York's Lincoln Center on August 20 and at the Festival of World Cultures, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland on August...
Then, however, he recalled the world's other great modern metropolis--murky, sullen, dun-colored London, which he had visited last year. It was a city that seemed to darken a little more every day from the soot belched by smokestacks and chimneys...
...creators of The First Emperor were clearly intent on sharpening the film's (already pretty clear) political stance. "Qin Shi Huangdi was pretty much like Mao Zedong," Tan Dun told Martin Steinberg of The Associated Press. "He unified China. He made the language, made the measuring system, made the currency. ... But on the other hand, imagine how many other kingdoms' tribes he wiped out, how many other languages he destroyed, and the culture and books burned...