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...same American soprano who got booed at Milan's La Scala a few years ago went to Paris recently to receive the Légion d'Honneur. After recording three new albums - the jazz-inspired Haunted Heart, the Strauss opera Daphne and a collection of sacred songs - Renée Fleming, 46, spoke with Time's Terry McCarthy about practicing in front of the mirror and learning to sing in Elvish. You have a Christmas album? Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc. Only now it's called a sacred collection. My father was a choral master...
...linking it to Surrealism - that led to the final split among the movement's individualistic adherents. But the spirit of Dada - and it was always an attitude rather than a coherent school of thought - survived. The Pompidou tries to reinforce this point in the final display space, which includes René Clair's almost coherent 1924 film Entr'acte, and Duchamp's never-quite-finished The Large Glass (also known as The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even), two painted and otherwise embellished panes of glass in a wooden frame. The curators even consider the view of Paris through...
...spiritual strength and cultural beauty, much of which has already been lost. Africa's resources have contributed immeasurably to Western wealth, and the continent has been exploited, often brutally, for decades. The attitude of European and American politicians toward Africa continues to be one of incomprehension and ignorance. René van Slooten Maarssen, the Netherlands Sachs presented a course of action that social-development workers like me have been waiting for. On the global scale, his recommendations deserve swift implementation. But on the micro or country-by-country level, I would strongly recommend the inclusion of what I would term...
...title of Young Buck's first solo project, Straight Outta Ca$hville, is a throwback to 1989's Straight Outta Compton, the classic gang life manifesto from N.W.A. (Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Easy-E, M.C. Ren and D.J. Yella). N.W.A.'s depictions of violence, often directed against the police, put Los Angeles on the hip hop map. Hailing from Nashville, Buck hopes to do for the Dirty South with Ca$hville what Compton did for the Wild West...
...looking to these rookies to use their Athens experience to thrash the rest of the world in 2008, when Beijing hopes to challenge America's right to call itself the world's lone athletic superpower. "In previous Olympics, the most important thing was to achieve gold medals," says Ren Hai, a professor at the Beijing Sport University who studies China's Olympic history. "This time we have another goal, which is to prepare the younger athletes for the 2008 Olympics...