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...nuclear deal as necessary for the country's continued prosperity - and as a bellwether signaling India's rising stature in the global community. The agreement, writes columnist Seema Chishti in the Indian Express newspaper, is a step toward "deciding what kind of India would rise to engage with the rest of the world and its neighborhood...
...rest of the world soon caught the bug. Except the U.S. When the band finally toured here in 1979 (ABBA, SWEDISH QUARTET, IN NEW YORK DEBUT, observed the New York Times), critics compared the foursome unfavorably to Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles and the Beach Boys...
Fumaroli's association isn't the only one to be concerned about that. The Abu Dhabi deal alone will bring the Louvre $900 million - $600 million for the right to use the Louvre name for 30 years, and the rest for services that include lending up to 300 works. (The total deal amounts to $1.3 billion; some other French museums participating in the government-backed project will share the rest of the proceeds.) When the deal was struck last year, an Internet petition declaring "our museums are not for sale" quickly drew several thousand signatures, including those of well-known...
...deputy Selles, the Louvre is becoming ever less dependent on France's establishment. The French state, which wholly funded the museum for much of its history, still subsidizes it generously, doling out about $180 million in 2008. But that's only about half the total budget. The rest is raised by the Louvre itself, from ticket sales, traveling-exhibition receipts, and above all donations by French companies and American and other philanthropists...
...first city that cultural spectators would expect to fulfill such a warm and welcoming service. Most New Yorkers survey the surrounding lands of New Jersey and elsewhere with distaste. They prefer to hail their city as a de facto republic in the societal marshland of the rest of America. This geographical snobbery is even more concentrated in the intercity divisions among Manhattan, Brooklyn and the “lesser” boroughs. Really, one need not bother to even name them...