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Rhapsody in blue
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Jean Nouvel has designed a new concert hall in Copenhagen - and
it might just be the best in the world, says Jay Merrick
You couldn't hear a pin drop. In the world's newest concert hall,
the faintest whir of air-conditioning intrudes. Here, where the
quality of silence is as crucial as the reverberation times of sound
waves, measured in critical fractions of a second, some would say
this was a fatal crime against purity. But in this strange building,
this vaporous blue cube set on a blasted heath in one of
Copenhagen's rare urban dead-spots, it turns out that purity itself
would have been ...
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Rafsanjani On Iran's Crisis.(Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani)
Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat News Service
; Ex-president 'Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani on July 17 threw his weight behind the reformists...The opposition retorted with shouts of: "Hashemi [Rafsanjani], Hashemi, we support you". Rafsanjani drew parallels...
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Rafsanjani feels friendless. (Iranian Pres Hashemi Rafsanjani)
Magazine article from: The Middle East
; ...be a tough one for President Rafsanjani. The Islamic radicals scent...reform pla writes from Tehran that Rafsanjani faces a tough task in implementing...Iran's President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 1994 is poised to become a...
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Front-runner's reinvention captures theme of today's Iran.(Hashemi Rafsanjani launches comeback)
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
; ...presidential front-runner Hashemi Rafsanjani declared that Iranians...ultraconservatives. "I know that Rafsanjani has good experience...last person." But Rafsanjani is one of Iran's most...stickers advertising "Hashemi" and T-shirts calling...
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IRAN - Nov 19 - Rafsanjani Wins Backing For Key Election.(Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, presidential elections)
Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Recorder
; ...pragmatic former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in his decision to stand in...fundamentalist president, who defeated Rafsanjani in last year's presidential...rhetoric has often portrayed Rafsanjani and his allies as a "mafia...
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Profile: Top Centralist Hopeful Hashemi Rafsanjani TEHRAN, February 17
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; ...polls, the former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani is widely believed to regain the post...for Khatami's programs. "With Hashemi (Rafsanjani), political development impossible, with Hashemi, eternal freedom, impossible...
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Rafsanjani's no moderate. (Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani)
Magazine article from: The Nation
; Rafsanjani's No Moderate Ayatollah Khomeini...effective policy decisions. Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, then speakder of the Iranian Parliament...Rushdie episode, for example, surprised Rafsanjani in the midst of his friendly postures...
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Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani woos youth vote with tears in campaign broadcast
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...Iran Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani, favored to regain the post...restrictions in the Islamic republic. Rafsanjani, a political pragmatist who...student Parisa Azimpour said in a Rafsanjani campaign film shown on state...
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Rafsanjani reshuffles cabinet after media loss. (Pres. Hashemi Rafsanjani) (News Iran)
Magazine article from: MEED Middle East Economic Digest
; ...media. The departure of Mohammad Hashemi, the president's brother...faction in the majlis and a blow to Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani will have less effective control...programmes on television. But Hashemi had been in charge of radio and...
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Seeking a Pragmatist; Iran election: Will Rafsanjani Run?(Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani)
Magazine article from: Newsweek International
; ...That person could be Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who was Iran's president...campaign for him, but so far Rafsanjani has kept everyone guessing about...been criticized for supporting Rafsanjani in the past, considers him the...
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Rafsanjani 'will not seek' third term. (Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani)(includes other news briefs) (Iran)
Magazine article from: MEED Middle East Economic Digest
; ...Larijani replaced Mohammad Hashemi, the president's younger...Khamenei (MEED 25:2:94). Hashemi was then appointed as senior deputy foreign affairs minister. Hashemi's departure was seen by many...blow to the president, but Rafsanjani said "the changes happened...
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