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...disappointment is astonishing, given that most of the technicians at the mixing boards are currently at the top of their game: Philly dumpster-diving prodigy Diplo, sexy French electroboys Air, and not one, but two splinter-groups from one-album wonders the Unicorns, to name a few.Two more poppy Frenchmen, Octet, steal the show by recasting bubblegum gem “Girl” as a melodramatic aria, sung at the climax of a new-age murder opera. They cut out all the lead vocals of the chorus, thus negating the longstanding debate over whether our hero is saying...
...gendarmes have weapons. The kids they face in the street have mostly stones and Molotov cocktails. It is a mismatch. But it's the cops who are the heavy underdogs--the cops and the France that the cops alone represent in those burning godforsaken ghettos where most Frenchmen dare...
...pipe dream, birth rates alone will soon drastically alter the balance. Muslims have the highest birth rate--three times the rate of non-Muslims--of any demographic group in Europe. The most common name for a newborn in neighboring Brussels is Mohammed. Childbearing rates among non-Muslim Frenchmen are well below replacement levels. The old French, like the rest of Europe, are literally disappearing...
...remain contributing members of society long after they've qualified for senior discounts. Although the mandatory retirement age at most companies in Japan is about 60, the International Labor Organization says that 71% of Japanese men between 60 and 64 are still working, compared with just 17% of Frenchmen in the same age group. Many of those who aren't drawing a paycheck remain active as volunteers for charitable causes. "You have to keep taking on challenges," says May Ushiyama, who at 94 still runs the Hollywood Beauty Salon in Tokyo, which she helped start three-quarters of a century...
...release of 39 Americans held hostage aboard a TWA jet in Beirut, and that they helped free three Soviet hostages in Beirut last October. In Washington and Paris, the hope remains that something will come of Assad's promise to work quietly for the release of the Americans and Frenchmen held hostage. Simultaneously, the Hindawi trial is being closely watched to see whether it will yield any conclusive proof that Syria sponsors terrorism. --By Jill Smolowe. Reported by Scott MacLeod/Cairo and Adam Zagorin/Paris