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...Love Below, André takes an unconventional route—adopting the role of a singer and often neglecting his formidable mic skills. More often than not, these attempts to innovate result in patchwork soul and other, even more frightening musical mutants. Without the dedication to fully develop many of his musical ideas, André seems to bounce aimlessly through his playground of influences...
...stamp on Paris. The idea has taken root. Goodbye wicker, hello chintz. Café owners across Paris have been imitating the Costes' haute-design blueprint to the point where it risks turning into a new café cliché. How much does the Costes formula bring in? As a patchwork of private companies - or "an informal network whose members have been tied to one another since birth," as Gilbert, 54, puts it - they're not required to say. Pressed, Gilbert figures the whole collection throws off some j100 million a year, although that's probably low. Profits...
...salient reality for the Palestinians, which is a life of collective punishment under an Israeli occupation that imprisons them in their cities and separates them from their land, whether to expand Jewish settlements and their attendant infrastructure, or to build the security wall that will lock them into a patchwork of enclaves comprising less than half of the West Bank. It is its inability to transform those realities that is the inherent weakness of the "roadmap" plan...
...West Germany. And today, the spot where Wertheim's flagship store once stood is an empty wasteland directly opposite the Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament. But Wertheim hasn't disappeared into the history book - far from it. For more than a decade, the Leipziger Platz site - and a patchwork of other prime real estate in the heart of Berlin that belonged to Wertheim - has been the object of one of the biggest restitution battles in post-reunification Germany. Four groups are involved in a tangled legal fight over approximately 65,000 sq m of Berlin's best locations...
Rather than route flights through regional hubs and blanket the world with service like the traditional U.S. airlines, the upstarts offer flyers a patchwork of routes and a wide choice of onboard perks. The smaller carriers are choosing routes for which demand is brisk even amid a slumping economy and lingering fears of terrorism. That means smaller markets are being turned over to regional airlines or abandoned altogether...