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...DIED. Jean-Fran?ois Revel, 82, witty, influential French philosopher and journalist who tweaked European intellectuals for their knee-jerk anti-Americanism; in Paris. His 1970 book Without Marx or Jesus argued that the U.S. model of multiparty democracy, not socialism, was the best way to achieve world peace. One of 40 members of the Acad?mie Fran?aise, which defends the standards of the French language, Revel recently disparaged his countrymen, declaring: "We French have had little to say against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi ... [or] the imams of the Islamic Republic of Iran," instead saving their vitriol "for Ronald Reagan and George...
DIED. Jean-François Revel, 82, witty, influential French philosopher and journalist who tweaked European intellectuals for their knee-jerk anti-Americanism; in Paris. His 1970 book, Without Marx or Jesus, argued that the U.S. model of multiparty democracy, not socialism, was the best way to achieve world peace. One of 40 members of the Académie Française, which defends the standards of the language, he recently rebuked his countrymen, saying, "We French have had little to say against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi [or] the imams of the Islamic Republic of Iran," instead saving vitriol "for Ronald Reagan...
...music of multiple genres as not only a writer, but also as a musical director, producer, and even actor (he was a player in the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of “Pippinâ€). His musical tastes run the gamut from Haydn and Revel to Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler and Swedish pop producer Max Martin, the man behind such notorious bubble-gum hits as “Hit Me Baby One More Time†and “Since U Been Gone.†After a performance of original pop and rock...
Khoury even seems gleefully happy to revel in the mysteries surrounding the Templars. At one point he even has one of Chaykin’s co-workers quote Umberto Eco’s famous statement about the group, telling her that “a sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars...
...London. "It's much better to simply talk through the problem. The government has a lot to learn." According to critics, the suit shows how out of step the government has become with the rest of Europe and its own pro-Western urban élite. But it appears to revel in contrariness. "It's incredible how many conflicts they have produced in such a short time," said Jan Rokita, leader of the opposition Civic Platform party. The government has courted further controversy by setting up an "anticorruption" police force, controlled by the ruling party, with sweeping powers to probe serving...