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...across-the-water parallel. Like Hillary and Bill Clinton in the U.S., this may be another welcome case of getting two for the price of one. Martin L. Grey High Wycombe, England Your cover story on Royal, the most likely presidential candidate of the French Socialist Party, provided excellent background on the possibility of this unprecedented phenomenon in French politics - a woman President. But you missed one point. Behind Royal's feminine charm and photogenic smile beats a heart that is as red as any socialist's heart can be. Royal has as one of her role models British Prime...
...Often medicines target particular genetic receptors, rather than giving us any idea about the background complexity of cancer,” Parsons said. “Computational advances in studying gene expression have really allowed us to scale things up and understand the pathways behind groups of genes with similar functions...
...could never have made the films I’ve been making if not for the background I had at Harvard,” Bujalski, a former Currier House resident says. He cites the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) Department’s emphasis on the basics—how to run the camera, how to run the sound, how to edit on a flatbed—as indispensable...
...there’s a defining feature about Bujalski’s aesthetic, it’s certainly not bells and whistles. “Mutual Appreciation” is filmed in a grainy black and white with almost no background music and full of nuanced scenes with partially improvised, wholly naturalistic dialogue...
...Despite the injection of national party politics and foreign policy issues, both candidates have sought to emphasize domestic economic issues, with Braley touting his working-class background and Whalen his entrepreneurial experience. Both talk of voters' concerns about security - physical (protection from terrorists) and economic (jobs, wages, health care costs...