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...Bastille to Trocadéro, from Montparnasse to the Grands Boulevards - that's our fief, our little village," says Jean-Louis, 53, with a proprietary air. "It's a very good village." They've got the Café Marly in the Louvre museum, which overlooks I.M. Pei's glass pyramid, and the restaurant Georges atop the Pompidou Center, where diners survey the city through giant windows. L'Esplanade is theirs too, the only café on the magnificent Esplanade des Invalides. If you're in the fashion business, you eat lunch at l'Avenue, which holds down what...
...Because most of the 3 million people who find themselves in C.-and-R. centers each year belong to the country's floating population of migrant laborers?the lowest of the low in China's quickly re-emerging class pyramid?abuses tend to be overlooked except in the most egregious cases. Although several of these instances have made it into the national press, they rarely elicit calls for reform...
...used to front men like Bono (who wants to throw his arms around the world) and Mick Jagger (who wants to throw his legs around the world). But Radiohead's lead singer, Thom Yorke, would just like the world to behave. His best songs--Fake Plastic Trees, Let Down, Pyramid Song--are written from the perspective of a perfectly rational person who thinks the rest of the world has gone nuts. As rock mantras go, this has all the sex appeal of "Get off my lawn!" But millions have been moved to heights of ecstasy by Radiohead's calls...
...people seem to have noticed the government’s power grab” and that “few commentators have felt the need to speak out about the theft of civil liberties” is jaw dropping given the Cheop’s Pyramid-like size of the newspaper and scholarly literature their empty rhetoric apes—they do nothing to advance a sensitive and thoughtful debate about ways to protect our nation while at the same time maintaining a free society—a debate surely worth having in these uncertain and dangerous times...
...players “make war against themselves.” Comparing the concept of tribal war with the political factions and split loyalties within government works well for Herrera, as does the culture of death represented by the hanging skulls of the set. And the pyramid structure of the set, which functions as the site of the murders, suggests the history of a society filled with such bloody plots...