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Twenty one-year-old prodigy Lise de la Salle picked up the slack with her delivery of Camille Saint-Saen’s popular “Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor.” The solo piano passage that opens the piece—whose lack of a conventional orchestral prologue or a customarily slow second movement deviates significantly from the standard concerto structure—calls a Bach organ fantasy to mind. Sweeping broken arpeggios paired with a vibrant treatment of melody distinguished de la Salle’s delivery, though an enthusiastic orchestral accompaniment sometimes...
From the start, the popular shorthand for the safe landing of Flight 1549 has been "the miracle on the Hudson." But that's not the way you see it. Miracle? Absolutely not. It's a catchy, superficial media term. It's almost an insult to Sullenberger: God was not his co-pilot, [First Officer Jeffrey] Skiles was. These were two very competent pilots who did a great job of flying, and they were flying an extremely capable airplane. Sullenberger and Skiles did not in any sense think of this as a miracle. They thought of this as a job they...
...storage unit in Lyon, and then on Monday, Musulin turned himself in to authorities in Monaco (without the remaining $3.8 million). Many Frenchmen may have been a little disappointed by the news - in his two weeks on the run, Musulin had become one of the country's most popular antiheroes...
...bank accounts and his apartment before disappearing. "This admiration [for Musulin] makes me ashamed of France," commentator Philippe Bilger wrote in Marianne magazine, describing it as a deep break in the country's collective morality. There are anti-Musulin Facebook groups, too, although they are not nearly as popular. The group "Tony Musulin Is Not Robin Hood," for instance, has only one member...
...respondents said China was the country with which the U.S. had the most important bilateral relationship, ahead of Britain and Canada. But 56% categorized China as an adversary and just 33% called it an ally. That ambivalence is reflected on the other side of the Pacific. While Obama is popular in China, his celebrity has done little to move public opinion about the U.S. overall, according to the Pew Global Attitudes Project. The favorability rating of the U.S. among Chinese is just 47%, exactly what it was two years...