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...Barenboim started the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a youth ensemble that draws together Israeli and Arab musicians, many from disputed territories. Its first concert that year was in Weimar, Germany, in the shadow of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Concerts followed each summer across Europe and North America until 2004, when Barenboim made history by taking the orchestra to Ramallah, in the West Bank, where the musicians played under armed guard...
Barenboim still travels the world conducting great orchestras, including that of the Berlin State Opera, where he is general music director. But it is on the podium in front of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra--where he draws harmony from Arabs and Jews alike--that he shows the power...
...choice of Shanghai as the city in which to launch Ferragamo's 80th anniversary celebration hints at the growing importance of the Eastern hemisphere in the global market for luxury goods. Ferragamo's descendents know that growing their market share requires expanding their presence in nouveau riche markets like mainland China, where they have already opened an impressive 25 stores and have 8 more planned for this year. Some of these outlets are even popping up in unlikely and remote places such as icebound Harbin and industrial Shenyang - far-flung, provincial cities where high style still means white socks, polyester...
...Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia joined NATO as a guarantee against encroachment by Moscow, which had dominated them from 1945 until the end of the Cold War. Back at the close of the Cold War in the early 1990s, NATO had promised Moscow that once Soviet troops withdrew from Eastern Europe, NATO would not expand beyond West Germany. Russians decry the West's broken word, and question the purpose of NATO's encircling them from the west and south. Ukraine's prospective NATO membership is particularly painful to Russia in terms of security and emotions: Ukraine is the site...
...Agard, a lecturer in life sciences at the University of the West Indies. Petrochemical plants and the port itself are replacing the mangroves along the west coast, Agard notes, and from the north the city is expanding in the direction of the swamp. The highway on the swamp's eastern side chokes off the fresh water supply, changing the ecosystem of the swamp, which is also bounded by a sewage treatment plant and a garbage dump. That there are still plenty of birds in Caroni is "an illusion," Agard warns. "The local colony is not doing so well," he says...