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...combination of Renaissance and 20th century makes him very broad and very exciting as a scholar and teacher,” said Department Chair and Smith Professor of French Language and Literature Christie McDonald. “We look forward to seeing the expansion of Italian studies with his arrival...
...popping Rolaids, a character in According to Jim declaring she only wants "the shrimp at Red Lobster" and an episode of Arrested Development set in a Burger King. "We needed as much support for the show as we could get," says Steven Melnick, a senior marketing executive at 20th Century Fox Television, which produces Arrested Development, defending Burger King's starring role. (Typically,media buyers negotiate product placement as part of a package deal with regular...
...thought the warden, who was investigating allegations of illegal bush meat trading on his 400,000-hectare ranch, was an armed robber in an increasingly violent region. Cholmondeley's great-grandfather, Lord Delamere, was among the first whites to settle in the then-British colony in the early 20th century, and established a reputation for decadence chronicled in the 1982 book White Mischief, later made into a movie of the same name...
...Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This...
...people and contribute to the salvation of our fatherland in a difficult and dangerous time." President Vladimir Putin has not gone as far as Yazov, but he has long been unwilling to condemn Stalin. He recently described the collapse of the Soviet Union as "the greatest disaster of the 20th century." And earlier this month, Putin once again defended Stalin's infamous annexation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Asked by a journalist about Russia's 1941 occupation of the three states, he answered heatedly: "If the Baltic states joined the U.S.S.R. in 1939, we could not have occupied them...