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Fleming returned from the intermission wearing a floor-length plaid stole of mixed Scotch-Italian influence, and began a Debussy set with a soaring note in “La Flute de Pan.” The pensive, worried mood of this piece soon segued into the sublimely happy—and rather seductive—love song, “Le Cheverlure.” The third Debussy song, “Le Tombeau des Naides” had a few trills here and there, but was not outstanding overall...
...anticipation of a fire-works display. Thibaudet’s virtuosity was readily apparent in this piece; he had no need to race down the scales, as he was already at both ends. If ever there was an operatic score fit for the fight between Captain Hook, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, surely this...
Starting Monday, a crew of five specialists will arrive in Cambridge for the first round of dismantling. The team will spend a week gutting the kitchen down to the walls. A photographer will document the location of each pot and pan. Then, wearing white gloves and marking each object with a color-coded tag, the crew will label and pack away the kitchen one spoon at a time. They’ll also take the cabinets and the kitchen sink...
...protracted campaign has made more urgent the waging of the propaganda war in the Arab and Muslim world, and the U.S. last weekend unveiled a new secret weapon - former ambassador to Syria Christopher Ross. Within two hours of Osama bin Laden's latest propaganda tape broadcast on the pan-Arab cable network al-Jezeera, viewers heard a rebuttal from Mr. Ross delivered in fluent Arabic. And with it, the message that Washington plans to challenge Bin Laden in real time for the hearts and minds of the Arab world. The U.S. might have been helped in this respect...
Washington may not be able to find Osama bin Laden on the ground in Afghanistan, but it was able, last weekend, to ambush him on the airwaves. Soon after Qatar's al-Jezeera TV broadcast the latest propaganda tirade from the Saudi terrorist on Saturday, the channel's pan-Arab audience was treated to a surprise live American rebuttal - delivered, like bin Laden's own rant, in fluent Arabic. The U.S. had introduced a new "secret weapon" to the propaganda war: Christopher Ross, former U.S. ambassador to Syria and State Department counter-terrorism coordinator, brought out of mothballs...