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...either ordered us to put our cameras down or deleted our pictures after the fact. The guides also had an unsettling habit of taking pictures of us at every tour stop, for reasons they never quite explained. Every once in a while they let slip information that made it obvious they were electronically monitoring our hotel rooms and phone calls. All in a day's work for a North Korean tour guide...
...despite appearances, is not the only country with influence in the cultural field. The case of French architecture is an obvious example. When Paul Andreu builds the National Grand Theater in Beijing, when Jean Nouvel has projects in Brazil or Jean-Michel Wilmotte in the gulf states, when Christian de Portzamparc works in Rio de Janeiro, and Dominique Perrault in Russia, they are operating in countries that will very soon represent major cultural "markets...
...French culture. Whereas we know very well French culture is infinitely richer. That France is lacking artists of Proust's stature is undeniable. That French cinema is weaker than at the time when the nouvelle vague was giving absolute lessons in filmmaking to the rest of world cinema is obvious. But it is rather simple to show that the conception that we have of art has also changed, and that the very idea of a masterpiece has disappeared (not only in France) in the second half of the 20th century. Proust today wouldn't make sense. Shakespeare neither...
...autopsy would have been the obvious solution to the ongoing debate, but Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zadari declined one at the time of her death, explaining at a news conference on Sunday that, "It was an insult to my wife, an insult to the mother of the nation. I know their forensic reports are useless. I refuse to give them her last remains." The government has since offered to exhume the body, which was buried Friday, in order to perform a post-mortem - but it may be a case of too little, too late. Doing so now only risks...
...about the President's speeches." It is the job of the RNC communications team, he admits, to "provide information to further a story line that is detrimental to our opposition." Of course, the Democratic National Committee has someone doing the exact same thing; what distinguishes Diaz is the obvious pleasure he takes in a job that is largely about spreading ill will...