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...play follows the sinister, sadomasochistic, and (almost literally) suffocating interactions of two maids, who yearn for freedom from the Ancien Régime, embodied by the tyrannical “Madame” (Laurel Holland ’07). Apart from revolutionary ideas, the Papin sisters—famous 1930s French murderers—inspired Genet, just as they did in the works of Sartre and Lacan...
...reason is the revival of the opposition Tories under their dynamic young leader, David Cameron. Another is a spate of recent government scandals, from undignified sexual shenanigans to more serious issues of misjudgment, recalling the venality and incompetence that dogged the dying days of the ancien Tory rgime in the mid-1990s. But, like his comrade George W. Bush, Blair faces his biggest problem because of Iraq. Voters think he stretched the case for war. And the failure to find weapons of mass destruction, as well as the mounting strain on British forces in Iraq, has drained his support...
...charging big bucks for food they don't quite get. Alain Senderens, on the other hand, shut down the venerable Lucas Carton, an establishment boasting the full three Michelin stars, and opened a brasserie on the same site. He now risks alienating adherents of his ancien régime by letting the people eat cake - a Sichuan pepper dacquoise cake to be precise - for €17. The dish cost €60 at his old place. Senderens is only the latest top chef to drop out of the star system. Jöel Robuchon cashed in his Michelin status...
...constructed from 1786-1788 before the French Revolution for reasons of public health. The cemeteries in Paris were overcrowded and they had to move the bodies. I’m trying to look at the construction of catacombs as metaphors for the fall of the ancien régime...
...General Musharraf?s solution to the problem of what to do about Nawaz," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "The general had to find a way to keep the well-connected Nawaz from mounting a challenge to his regime." Disposing of the head of the ancien régime has become something of a tradition in Pakistani politics: General Zia-ul-Haq had Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hanged after taking power in a 1977 coup; Bhutto's daughter, Benazir, didn't have to bother since it was the plane crash that killed General Zia that allowed her to come...