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...Albeit a highly compromised one. The man who reinvented the French left, and ultimately engineered its triumph in May, 1981, has always inspired harsh polemics. He was the hope of the left, but also the bourgeois prince who sold it out; the valiant resistance fighter, but also the Vichy regime bureaucrat. He was lauded as a friend of the Jewish people, but never denounced his long friendship with Vichy police chief Réné Bousquet, who helped round up Jews for deportation at the notorious Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris...
...animal exhibits in delightfully creative ways, designed to benefit the inhabitants as much as the visitors. Zoo director Masao Kosuge installed a water tube for the spotted seals, gave the panthers rock ledges to nestle on, and lets the king penguins out of their enclosure for a daily (albeit supervised) stroll through the zoo grounds. Monkeys are no longer fed from bowls but forage happily for food now hidden among the wood chips and foliage. It's a stimulating environment that has done wonders for the animals. "You can see it in their eyes," says Kosuge. "They are happy because...
...seems that those pesky, nefarious frosh interlopers are at it again, albeit a block further down Plympton Street...
...propelled by a series of impressive defensive stands and a string of Dartmouth penalties, the Crimson finally converted on its power play, albeit due to a Big Green bench minor...
...after graduation. ("I wish I could go back to college," a character sings. "Life was so simple back then.") Look at that little TV show called Friends, about six people who put off marriage well into their 30s. Even twice-married Britney Spears fits the profile. For a succinct, albeit cheesy summation of the twixter predicament, you couldn't do much better than her 2001 hit I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman...