Word: flashings
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Banlieues like Bobigny, Aulnay-sous-Bois and the original flash point of Clichy-sous-Bois make up a tinderbox that few foreigners see and no one in France wants to talk about. The working-class suburbs of Paris are dominated by sterile high-rise public housing, where Arab immigrants from North Africa were shunted when they started arriving in the postcolonial years. Now their children and grandchildren subsist in squalor alongside fresh waves of African and South Asian immigrants and their French-born children. Families struggle to hang on to their dignity, while drug dealers and petty criminals exploit...
...warm reception at the meeting of leaders last night. Or that the meeting went much longer than anyone had planned, making a president famous for going to bed at 9 stay up close to midnight. At dinner some of his aides groaned when they saw the delays flash on their BlackBerrys. "They've only gotten to the appetizers," said one at 10 p.m., distressed about the long delay. Still, it would be mistake to dismiss the summit or to think that the region has backslid to the days when extremist politics dominated...
...things, war has an archetypal prestige and bristling drama with which peace has trouble competing: Milton's Lucifer in Paradise Lost is much more interesting than Milton's God. War is rich and vivid, with its traditions, its military academies, its ancient regiments and hero stories, its Iliads, its flash. Peace is not exciting. Its accoutrements are, almost by definition, unremarkable if they work well. It is a rare society that tells exemplary stories of peacemaking -- except, say, for the Gospels of Christ, whose irenic grace may be admired from a distance, without much effect on daily behavior. Kant said...
...Harvard Professor of Japanese Literature Jay Rubin, who has translated several of Murakami’s books into English, poses alongside him. The two chat with each other in Japanese, attempting to dispel the awkward silence interrupted only by the sound of the camera’s flash...
...wonder if she’ll ignore them?). How the girl wound up two thousand miles away and dead is an interesting little mystery, but it is ultimately the only driving plot element to the movie. Like Morris and Collins’ nightclub act, there’s enough flash and excitement that the lack of substance is not readily apparent. There’s lots of crying, yelling, strange behavior, and kinky sex (a personal favorite for weirdness is the drugged-out scene between Karen and a girl dressed as Alice in Wonderland)—enough...