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...that France's national soccer team fielded "9 blacks out of 11" starting players. "I'm ashamed of this country," in which "the whites are lousy," he groused, and would soon be fielding teams "where all 11 players are black." That echoed a comment a year earlier by philosopher Alain Finkelkraut, who - seeking to explain the 2005 rioting by youths descended from immigrants in France's suburbs - made allusion to France's "white-black-Arab" soccer side that won the 1998 World Cup and became an icon of French social integration. " Today, [the team is] black-black-black...
...sets a great tone that validates what people have to say,” he added. Vasiliauskas said she values an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship. She said classes that she took early in her Harvard career, notably ones with former art history professor Yve-Alain Bois and Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Christopher D. Johnson, were “formative” to her interdisciplinary thinking. Vasiliauskas was one of about 50 Harvard candidates endorsed by the University in September and the only one to win a scholarship. This is the third year in a row that Harvard...
...hake on the menu at El Rodat in Javea, Spain, is a marvel of equilibrium. At once intensely flavorful and delicately light, it is the sort of exquisite dish you would expect from a chef who began his education at Barcelona's top culinary school and later apprenticed with Alain Ducasse in Paris. But the secret to Sergio Torres' fish lies less with the young other stories...
...world, he's rather more entertaining. He has a job as a paste-up technician with a calendar publisher, which rejects his attempts to become an artist (his sample illustrations are dreamy, childlike representations of disasters, natural and man-made). The office is dominated by lusty, corner-cutting Guy (Alain Chabat) who besides cracking bad, sexually charged jokes attempts to woo Stephane to the dark side: girls, booze, mild working-world rebelliousness. These passage are not wildly inventive, but at least they return us to that place where movies function most comfortably, a naturalistic world that is, of course, intensified...
...Still, it's not as if there are no second acts in French politics. Alain Jupp?, the former prime minister and close Chirac ally convicted in 2004 for his role in a scheme to put party workers on the Paris city payroll, is proving as much. After a forced vacation from civic life, much of it spent teaching politics in Quebec, Jupp? is back in play this autumn. Last month party colleagues in his power base of Bordeaux resigned en masse from the city council, forcing new elections. Jupp? is expected to walk to victory next month as the mayor...