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Kirchner and Rosalie set out to present a Ring that ignored the political -- mostly Marxist -- approach that has been popular in Europe over the past two decades. Reacting especially to Patrice Chereau's influential 1976 production, set in the Industrial Revolution, the team rejected polemics in favor of a more...
With his high-heeled shoes and cumulus-cloud hairdo, Kim Jong Il displays a taste for the gaudy that is at odds with his country's spartan ways. He surrounds himself with the scions of his father's wartime comrades, a new generation of revolutionaries who call themselves the Loyal...
Despite the difficulties, however, Cuba's mortality rate for infants and children under five continues to improve. At 9.4 deaths per 1,000 infants last year, Cuba's rate is surpassed only by Canada's (7 per 1,000 in 1992) and the U.S.'s (9 per 1,000) in...
"The E.U. economies are walking, but they're not running," says J. Paul Horne, an economist for the Smith Barney Shearson investment firm in Paris. Indeed, Britain has been in a recovery for the past 18 months, and its gross domestic product is expected to grow 2.7% this year. The...
ON THE WEAKNESSES OF RUSSIA'S LEADERS: Some of them do not understand the situation. Others really do not have the will or energy to act. But I may add that the main weakness of power derives from the fact that there has not been a new system of government...