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...Neutral Milk Hotel. “The Flying Club Cup,” Beirut’s second album, seeks inspiration further west of their old sonic haunts and finds it in France. The influence is evident, superficially in the pretentious Francophone chatter at the beginning of songs, the French song titles on eight of the album’s 13 tracks, and in the use of accordion and euphonium. The different instruments tonally enrich the tracks, often creating beautiful oceans of sound and offering a refreshing alternative to Beirut’s contemporaries. However, the highlights of the album...
...over the past two years has been a campaign to root out the vestiges of communist officialdom, notably from Poland's military intelligence and foreign service; Jaroslaw says he needs four more years to root out the uklad. Pawel Zalewski, a senior PIS official, likens the effort to the French purge of Nazi collaborators after liberation in 1944. "It's a question of security and trust at home and abroad," he told TIME. Polish social historian Adam Mielczarek observes that the PIS appeals to ordinary Poles in the same way that the Solidarity movement did in the early 1980s...
Turner didn't always deal in turmoil. His great hero was Claude Lorrain, the 17th century French landscape painter who invented formats like the idealized harbor, places flanked by classical piles, where a setting sun bears down gently on the horizon. In Caernarvon Castle, an early watercolor flushed with orange twilight, Turner took Lorrain's tranquil model and invested it with the nostalgia and high-minded melancholy of English Romanticism...
Since fleeing to Paris last February, Nur has repeated the same message to President Bush's special envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios; French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner; and the former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson. A steady stream of leading diplomats has met with Nur to plead with him to attend international peace talks with Sudan's government. "Everybody has been to see him, anybody who thinks they can have any influence whatsoever," says a European aid worker, who asked not to be named. "People are really, really, really trying to persuade him." That's because the mass killing...
...French foreign ministry spokesman this week told TIME that the French government had tried hard to get Nur to the peace talks. "We have done everything we can to persuade him to go," he said. "For the moment we can do nothing more." Clearly exasperated, Foreign Minister Kouchner told reporters at the United Nations last month that he had told Nur "10,000 times" that he risked being politically marginalized in Sudan if he did not attend peace talks. But, despite his irritation, Kouchner said in a statement this week that Nur would not be asked to leave France...