Word: interiorities
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...week, French police raids in suburban Paris and the city of Evreux in Normandy bagged nine alleged extremists linked to Algeria's terrorist Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). And while nearly everyone in France agrees the threat is serious, there are quibbles about how imminent it is. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy proclaimed that the risk of an attack "is at a very high level." Some see in that remark political opportunism, or at least exaggeration. "The threat is real and constant, but it has not grown significantly higher of late," remarks one French counterterrorism official. "There...
Wally’s might not initially seem a promising candidate for a classy date. It’s shaped and sized like the box your shoes came in, there’s always an aggressive bouncer checking IDs at the door, and the interior is cramped. The bar takes up half the width and nearly the full length of the place, and it’s hard to talk sometimes, since the solos here go loud and long...
...INTERIOR DESIGN...
...streets make for a nice place to get lost (and easily found), and the well-preserved 12th century Norman castle, above, is a must-see. But it's the downward views that truly give the hillside hamlet an otherworldly aura. Look south and you'll see Sicily's rugged interior; up north there's the San Vito lo Capo peninsula; to the east, there's the road to Palermo; and to the west, the Trapani coastline and the Egadi islands beyond. And if your binoculars are strong enough, you may even spot your favorite America's Cup team slicing through...
...French plainly see their own malaise reflected back from across the Rhine - and that's a depressing prospect for the main parties of both the left and the right. The French conversation casts CDU leader Angela Merkel as a Teutonic stand-in for Nicolas Sarkozy, France's super-ambitious interior minister who heads the ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), yet regularly issues pithy calls for a total "rupture" of the status quo politics of President Jacques Chirac and his current prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, and a more radical free-market agenda. Merkel's slow descent into...