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...those of the Europeans. And the Bush Administration has disavowed any intention of becoming an imperial power of the traditional kind. Even Richard Perle, the Pentagon adviser who for years has argued for regime change in Iraq, recently denounced imperialist ambitions in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro. "It is quite simply impossible," said Perle, "to prove that the United States has behaved in an imperialist manner." Yet as Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations argues, "Nobody wants to acquire an empire, but we are acquiring one. The general idea that we have to undertake nation...
...Scala, the Met and the Opéra Bastille in Paris, she has remained with the State Opera, where she is paid the same salary as other house singers. Onstage in Vienna, she has made a specialty of mezzo-soprano roles in Mozart operas like Le Nozze di Figaro and La Clemenza di Tito, and she performs regularly in recitals and concerts around the world. Opera guru Christopher Raeburn, who was among the first to spot Kirchschlager's talent - he also helped put mezzo Cecilia Bartoli on the map - calls her Octavian in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier the finest...
...first solo exhibition in Paris in 1931, the daily Le Figaro called painter Max Beckmann "something like a Germanic Picasso." Nobody would hazard such a comparison today, but the magnificent exhibition of Beckmann's work, which opened in September at Paris' Centre Pompidou, is bound to remind viewers what that critic of an earlier age was getting at. Like his Spanish rival, Beckmann was a protean creator with an immense vitality, rich artistic vocabulary and strong sense of mission. If his art has less influence today than Picasso's, it may be because it remained so rooted in the concrete...
...that the U.S. and the E.U. set a deadline for resumed inspections as well as ground rules - and a full range of potential punitive actions - to carry them out. "The combination of the American military threat with European diplomatic firmness should bear fruit," Beltran wrote last week in Le Figaro. "But American and European governments must resist pressures that could push them apart...
...Marriage of Figaro...