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...Their encore, the favourite duet from Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de perles, did not go well....
...At least three composers — Bizet in Les Pêcheurs de perles, Delibes in Lakmé and Massenet in Le Roi de Lahore — chose the Indian subcontinent as the setting for their exotic operas....
...It features a panel of 16 Bush-era neoconservatives — among them Paul Wolfowitz, Eliot Cohen and Richard Perle — with the line: “Architects of the illegal Iraq war....
...That meant enlightened traversals of romantic Lieder by Schubert and Richard Strauss, piquant mélodies of Poulenc and Manuel Rosenthal plus folkish explorations of Dvořák....
...Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles, Massenet’s Le roi de Lahore, Delibes’ Lakmé, all venture off into distant lands....
...Some US officials, such as Richard Perle, a leading neoconservative, predicted that the conflict would pave the way for Chalabi to take charge of Iraq and liberate the nation at the head of his Iraqi National...
...In 1996, Richard Perle and Douglas Feith, both of whom would go on to work under Bush, drew up a position paper for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s hawkish prime minister, then starting his first term....
...When even Iran hawks such as John Hannah and Richard Perle agree, as they did recently at a conference in London, that spare parts for superannuated Boeings are not exactly an appetising incentive, then...
...Perle....
...In the arguments over dodgy dossiers and unilateral declarations of war, he sided with George W Bush, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and Tony Blair rather than with his old friends on The Nation....
...Bizet was just 25 when he wrote Les Pêcheurs de perles in 1863....
...It was greeted with horror by Margaret Thatcher, then UK prime minister, and Richard Perle, one of Reagan’s closest advisers. Together they managed to kill the initiative....
...Last week he was a guest at celebrations in Rome of Israel’s 60th anniversary, along with Richard Perle, a prominent US neo-conservative....
...Richard Perle is a bully, but can also speak persuasively. Bill Kristol is combative – but also intellectually agile and keen to engage in debate....
...Wolfowitz is often bracketed in the public mind, not with Libby, but with Richard Perle – another neocon intellectual....
...The “witnesses” included British and foreign politicians and diplomats such as Clare Short, former secretary of state for international development, Richard Perle, former chairman of the Defence Policy Board...
...But almost all, including Richard Perle, the former adviser to Mr Rumsfeld in the first Bush term, strongly emphasised Mr Libby’s integrity....
...And here is the official summary of comments made at the same conference in Israel last month by Richard Perle, a former Pentagon official: “In possession of nuclear weapons, Iran is capable of using their...
...Richard Perle, an influential neo-con adviser to President George W. Bush, also joined the team, as did the wives of Henry Kravis and, er, Conrad Black....
...Also well represented among the participants are well-known hawks like Richard Perle, Jim Woolsey (the former CIA director), Newt Gingrich and Jose Maria Aznar, the former Spanish prime minister....
...Of all the various delusional statements that were made at the time, one of my favourites comes from Richard Perle – then head of the Pentagon’s Defence Policy Advisory board....
...An executive committee of Hollinger International’s board – which comprised Lord Black, Mr Radler and Richard Perle, the former US defence adviser, who was not charged in the case – approved some of the...
...But even more interesting than the contents of the book were the glowing endorsements on the back – from people such as Paul Wolfowitz, then number two at the defence department and Richard Perle, then chairman...
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