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Paris' newest museum a dialogue of cultures
Special to The Los Angeles TimesParis It was a cement-gray Paris morning when we got off the Métro at Alma-Marceau on our way to visit the Musée du Quai Branly, the newest museum in a city teeming with them. After 11 years and more than $290 million, this showcase for the indigenous...Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, Diana, Princess of Wales, Guggenheim Museum, Africa, Restaurants
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David Rousseve embraces the joy and the pain
Ten years ago, David Roussève found himself at risk of contracting "churning-it-out syndrome." A Los Angeles transplant, he worried that the kind of narrative-driven, deeply personal yet politically resonant dance-theater works that had brought him...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Louisiana, Children, New York, African Americans
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What Bono doesn't say about Africa
WILLIAM EASTERLY is a professor of economics at New York University, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of "The White Man's Burden: How the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest HaveJUST WHEN IT SEEMED that Western images of Africa could not get any weirder, the July 2007 special Africa issue of Vanity Fair was published, complete with a feature article on "Madonna's Malawi." At the same time, the memoirs of an African child...Tags: Social Issues, United Nations, New York, Africa, Celebrities
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Julie Ward's fabrics: out of Africa and into America's stores
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHE TRIBAL trend is one of the hottest this summer. The graphic prints and the bold dyes of the fabrics are popping up everywhere, but although most are mere knockoffs -- loomed, printed and dyed simply to look exotic -- a few are the real thing, and...Tags: Asha, Business Trips, Africa, Western Africa, Trips and Vacations
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Review: Lukas Ligeti at the Steve Allen Theater
Music CriticOn my way to the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood Thursday night for a rare local appearance by Lukas Ligeti, I stopped by Amoeba Music to pick up his new solo CD, "Afrikan Machinery." It was temporarily out of stock. A good sign, I thought. This is...Tags: New York, Africa, Music Industry, Superman (fictional character), Science and Technology
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Food price rises spark protests, hoarding
Anger over high food prices has sparked protests in several countries. Surging food prices have posed a particular risk to poor economies. Here are some details of recent price rise protests and disturbances: * BURKINA FASO - Unions called a general...Tags: South Africa, Argentina, Labor Disputes, Politics, Peru
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A market in missiles for terror
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA few weeks ago, a retired American intelligence officer was asked over lunch about the availability on the black market of portable shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles, which government officials fear terrorists might use against civilian...Tags: London Heathrow Airport, Afghanistan, Johns Hopkins University, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Engineering
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Gem trade also bankrolls bin Laden
The Washington PostThe terrorist network led by Osama bin Laden has reaped millions of dollars in the past three years from the illicit sale of diamonds mined by rebels in Sierra Leone, according to U.S. and European intelligence officials and two sources with direct...Tags: Afghanistan, The Washington Post, Crimes, National Security, Western Africa
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'September 11'
Times Staff WriterNot long after 9/11, a French producer named Alain Brigand asked 11 very different directors from across the world to make short films about the catastrophe. Some of Brigand's choices were real head-scratchers: No matter how great Sean Penn can be as an...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Chile, Crimes, Salvador Allende, United Kingdom
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Distrust of U.S. foils effort to stop crippling disease
Sun Foreign StaffFANISAU, Nigeria - If it were possible to wind back the centuries, Halima Umar's village would probably look much as it does today. Umar and her neighbors fetch water by lowering a bucket into a hand-dug well, toil in fields of millet and guinea corn, and...Tags: Pakistan, Health Organizations, Heads of State, Rotary International, India
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Thoroughly modern tribal
Special to The TimesBob WEIS was trolling EBay from his 1962 Palm Springs ranch house, hunting for the African artifacts he has collected for the last 20 years, when he hit the mother lode. There, among the carved wooden stools and ceremonial figures, hand-woven textiles,...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Jean Michel Basquiat, Science and Technology, Gabon, Congo
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Sankofa
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday May 12, 1995 Haile Gerima's sweeping, powerful "Sankofa," which in the African language of Akan means returning to the past in order to go forward, opens in the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, an ancient fortress where slaves bound for America...Tags: Social Issues, Cinema Industry, Slavery, David White, Death
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