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...group. Often scorned as a dumping ground for politicians either too green or too damaged for the national arena, the Parliament took a huge step toward shaking its image as a spineless body that salutes the Commission's every move. And M.E.P.s were tipsy with their newfound power. At Les Aviateurs bar, a popular watering hole in Strasbourg, young M.E.P.s partied until dawn to celebrate their victory. "There isn't a parliament in the history of democracy that didn't have to fight fiercely for its powers," Edith Mastenbroek, 29, a first-term Dutch Socialist, told Time. "That...
...March 2003. In the first scientific study of the human cost of the war and occupation, the deaths were attributed to "invasion violence," mostly U.S.-coalition air strikes. Although the figure is well above previously published estimates (which have ranged up to 30,000) the researchers, led by Les Roberts of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, say it is conservative...
...Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade, publishes Les 120 Journes de Sodome (The 120 Days of Sodom). His fantasy novel, along with the works Justine and Juliette, depicts graphic sexual violence. In his time, the Comte de Sade was better known as a philosopher and revolutionary; but today he’s forever entangled with fetish...
...Nobody followed him. The shouting grew ragged. There was lots of fist-pumping and inarticulate yells, including abortive attempts at a chanted “Yankees suck.” One of my roommates said, “I feel like I should be singing the score of Les Misérables.” I said, “I want the revolution.” The mood was oddly nihilistic, although perhaps we were just projecting...
...second act of the show, “Les Contes Fantastiques (Fantastic Tales),” reflects Marceau’s conviction that any artist must also have full knowledge and understanding of the historical roots of his craft. The first mimodrama, “The Wandering Monk,” has stylistic and thematic roots in Japanese Noh drama, and the calm, flowing movement of the company reflects the peacefulness of Zen Buddhism...