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17 janvier 2009

A reminder...

Zimbabwe unveils $100 trillion bank note Fri Jan 16, 7:50 am ET AFP/File – A shopper purchases tomatoes in Harare. Zimbabwe will introduce a 100 trillion dollar note, in its latest … HARARE (AFP) – Zimbabwe unveiled a 100 trillion dollar note Friday in...

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11 janvier 2009

Vicky, Empress Frederick

http://www.geocities.com/jesusib/Vicky_biog.html Queen Victoria of England has been the subject of several fine biographies; however, her equally interesting favourite daughter, "Vicky," whose tragic fate was to be the mother of Kaiser Wilhelm, who led...

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10 janvier 2009

Contemporary Discoveries, Known and Unknown, at Hamden Library

Dear Everyone, Yes, I know, I'm being extremely industrious this evening...wanted to share some 'finds' with you, discovered in the music department of Hamden library. I went with Nicole one morning and left with a notepad full of composers and works...

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9 janvier 2009

To Little Me

Dear Little Me Regarding your comment (and my thanks for it): I couldn't agree more and that was my point exactly, though I rambled a lot, too...Maybe I should rewrite it if that wasn't clear. Let me know. I did go off on one rather. Just seeing the books...

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28 décembre 2008

Yale and British Art Museum, New Haven

Oh my word...Nicole told me there was an excellent gallery of British art in New Haven, but I must confess I hadn't imagined anything like what she took me to see today. It's not that I hadn't believed her. I just hadn't entertained the possibility of...

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27 décembre 2008

EU entry helps Romanians and Bulgarians

EU entry helps Romanians and Bulgarians understand each other By Matthew Brunwasser Published: December 26, 2008 Herald Tribune RUSE, Bulgaria : Bulgarians had grandiose expectations about joining the European Union. The arrival of many Romanians was...

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27 décembre 2008

Gomulka and the granny A yuletide tale by Sandi

Gomulka and the granny A yuletide tale by Sandi Toksvig. By Sandi Toksvig Last Updated: 12:21PM GMT 23 Dec 2008 Photo: Stuart Kolakovic I don't know how well you know the nisse who lives in your home. It's pronounced 'nissa' and he ought to be very important...

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26 décembre 2008

Bon ap!

Just to help you round your plate of Christmas pudd, mince pies, brandy butter and other festives délices...! Fill 'Er Up With Human Fat Peter C. Beller, 12.22.08, 05:00 AM EST How a Beverly Hills doctor powered his SUV using his patients' spare tires....

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22 décembre 2008

Anca Parghel

with great sadness: Celebrated Romanian jazz singer Anca Parghel dies By ALISON MUTLER, Associated Press Writer Alison Mutler, Associated Press Writer – Fri Dec 5, 4:25 am ET BUCHAREST, Romania – Celebrated Romanian jazz singer Anca Parghel, who fought...

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20 décembre 2008

Worrying to say the least...

On the new government of the country of my heart... From Evenementul Zilei Mircea Cărtărescu Vineri, 19 Decembrie 2008 Mircea Cărtărescu: „Cine-o să facă învăţământ de calitate, cu cine să faci reforma atât de necesară, cu Ecaterina Andronescu, cea din...

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17 décembre 2008

News from Roumania

Here's the situation in Roumania from a friend who knows (and I quote): "Roumania has an outstanding debt of 62bn euros. The government is declaring they have foreign reserves of 27bn which is surely untrue. The fact is that the outstanding loans to the...

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16 décembre 2008

It's time to topple Mugabe

From The Observer, 7th December, by John Sentamu, Archbishop of York: When Jesus Christ wanted people to know what he was doing, he chose a passage from the Old Testament to describe his mission. It was a passage from the prophet Isaiah, written to encourage...

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15 décembre 2008

News

Dear Everyone Things are most festive here in Paris. The shop windows are quite lovely (with the exception of Le Bon Marché, a real disappointment in my opinion...Galeries Lafayette have really excelled themselves), the streets are bathed in coloured...

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15 décembre 2008

SOS from Zimbabwe. Please help!

Please read and act on the dreadful information which this message gives… Letter from Zimbabwe sent in by John Winter I reckon that these are the last days of TKM and ZPF. The darkest hour is always before dawn. We are all terrified at what they are going...

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11 décembre 2008

Update

Dear Everyone, I don't have much to report, hence no update for a while. Life in Paris chugs along just the same apart from a superb concert at St. Roch Friday night - the Verdi Requiem given by the PCS and La Toison d'Art. Beautiful music in such superb...

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8 décembre 2008

I thought this would happen, and a good job, too.

I thought this would happen, and a good job, too. From The Guardian: Why the Holocaust musical was right to close 'Conceptual cheesiness' ... Imagine This. Photograph: Tristram Kenton So Imagine This has announced that it will close at the New London...

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8 décembre 2008

Happy Hanukkah a little in advance

Please, please take a look at this http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/audio/2008/dec/05/sounds-jewish-barack-obama and tell me if you think it's a joke or not, especially the Dreidel song complete with video (click on it) at the end of the...

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8 décembre 2008

A man's best friend...

Charles IX's Gloves: Son of Henri II and Catherine de Medici, Charles IX succeeded his brother Francois II (who only got to reign for a few months) to the throne. A very controversial king indeed, he was tied to his mother's apron strings and enormously...

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7 décembre 2008

Joza Karas

Joza Karas, Collector of Music of Nazis’ Victims, Dies at 82 By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: December 6, 2008 Joza Karas, a musician and teacher who became a sleuth in his quarter-century search for the music and stories of composers who managed to do masterly...

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7 décembre 2008

Saul Steinberg

Saul and the city Saul Steinberg, the New Yorker's legendary cartoonist, perfectly captured the city's great changes - and the mindset of its citizens. Adam Gopnik remembers his colleague and friend Adam Gopnik The Guardian, Thursday November 27 2008...

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