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You're ready for the daily double if you responded: 1) Who is Claude Francois Denecourt, nicknamed "le Silvain"? 2) What is Mons Pilatus in the Swiss Alps? and 3) What is Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama? Author of iconoclastic, groundbreaking studies of the French Revolution (Citizens) and the...
Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in a new bid for international acceptance, made a round of political and social visits in Europe. Occasionally swapping his trademark fatigues for a dark blue suit and spotted tie, he criticized "blind and savage market laws" at the world-poverty summit in Copenhagen, told UNESCO...
The agency ordered one of the accused officers to leave France, and was planning to move a second officer. But the cover was blown on the affair by French presidential-election politics, say officials in both countries. Once a sure bet to succeed Socialist President Francois Mitterrand in the April...
The key to Sellars' interpretation is Arkel (bass Kenneth Cox), who is prominent here as in few other stagings. Arkel represents an ancien ragime that refuses to cede power, quashing the aspirations of the younger generation, represented by the angry, violent Golaud (bass-baritone Willard White), his younger half brother...
That would be a moral victory at best, since political analysts are virtually unanimous in predicting an easy win for Gaullist Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. Jospin's task thus will be to heal, as best he can, the rifts in his divided party and put in a credible performance against...