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...generally known for oil, shortstops, Miss Universes and, for the past decade of course, Hugo Chávez. But the South American country is now recognized as one of the world's most dynamic vessels of classical music, thanks to a 34-year-old program that gives violins, French horns and batons to poor barrio kids and lets them interpret Handel and Tchaikovsky with a Latin verve that last year led Simon Rattle, director of the Berlin Philharmonic, to declare, "The future of classical music lies in Venezuela...
...French playwright Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage is at least livelier, though it's set in a similarly claustrophobic world of refined, self-involved people. Two upper-middle-class couples (transplanted, in the U.S. translation, from Paris to Brooklyn) get together in the tastefully decorated living room of one to calmly discuss how to resolve a schoolyard fracas between their two boys. One of the parents is a corporate lawyer who can't extricate himself from his cell phone. Another is a socially committed writer who proudly displays a collection of art books on the coffee table. A third...
...most effective weapons are often the ones never used. Just ask French President Nicolas Sarkozy. In advance of the G-20 summit held in London last week, Sarkozy threatened to storm out of the talks if hedge funds weren't put on a tight leash as part of efforts to cope with the global financial crisis. Leaders agreed to regulate hedge funds more tightly - and Sarkozy remained in his chair...
...French Queen Marie Antoinette was 28 when she sat for this portrait by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun...
...Asnières, a suburb of Paris, looking for the perfect handbag. "I couldn't find one I liked, so I was going to custom-order one from Vuitton," says Coppola. One thing led to another, and she found herself designing a capsule collection of handbags and shoes for the French luxury house. The line includes a simple shoulder bag, above, 1940s-inspired wedge sandals and an evening clutch trimmed in gold piping and topped off with an Art Deco--style clasp. To ensure the practicality of the bags, Coppola, who lives in Paris and likes to walk, road-tested each...