Word: mali
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...hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Lively Bamako, the capital of Mali, might not have shops selling the latest iPods, but its streets spill over with tunes played by some of West Africa's greatest musicians. This city of 1 million lives for music. By day, battered taxis blare out foot-stomping beats, while old men cross roads with radios glued...
...Qaeda. Dumont was arrested in Germany in December and extradited to France last month for crimes he was convicted of committing there in the 1990s while a member of a radical Islamist group known as the Roubaix gang. For now, four of the men-two from Bangladesh, one from Mali and another from India-are being held only on immigration violations, while another Bangladeshi has been charged with falsifying official documents. But the police are investigating whether Dumont, a French national of Algerian descent who lived in Japan on and off in 2002 and 2003, was setting up a terrorist...
...show concluded with a spirited performance by the West African Drum Troupe from Mali. The majority of the audience got up on stage and joined in the dancing...
...Department of Music hosts Eric Charry, whose study of Mande music has carried him to Senegal, Mali, Gambia and Guinea. Charry, a professor of music at Wesleyan University, will speak on Jazz and Africa. 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public; Room 2 in the Music Building...
...themes are universal. Déli is a meditation on friendship. The title track - named for a lullaby Traoré's mother sang to her - wrestles with child poverty. She even deals with politics, but insists she could never work in that language. She thinks of the complexity of Mali's relations with the International Monetary Fund as well as her country's cotton farmers and how they suffer because Western nations subsidize their own. Such topics "are not poetic," she says. "I may be thinking about the situation between developed countries and undeveloped countries, but you will never hear...