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After dominating an exhibition game against Cape Breton University, Harvard (2-1-0) shut out both Binghamton (4-1-1) and Syracuse (1-4-0) before suffering its first defeat of the season to Central Connecticut (4-1-0) on Friday...
HARVARD 5, CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY 0 (EXHIBITION...
...also images of a kind of moralizing earnestness that was common in French salon art a century ago. Idealizations of the peasant, reflecting an anxiety that folk culture was being annihilated by the gravitational field of the city, were the stock of dozens of painters like Jules Breton, Jules Bastien-Lepage and Jean François Millet. Homer's own America had its anxieties too--immense ones. Nothing in its cultural history is more striking than the virtual absence of any mention of the central American trauma of the 19th century, the Civil War, from painting. Its fratricidal miseries were left...
...Nearly everyone feels the pinch; the national statistics institute predicts that household purchasing power will be virtually stagnant in the first half of this year. Meanwhile, it's unclear where the government will find the extra €1.6 billion to fund the public-sector raise - new Finance Minister Thierry Breton last week downgraded official forecasts of economic growth this year, from 2.5% to nearer 2%. A Bad Day At The Bourses Is the boom off in Central Europe's stock markets? After posting record gains in recent months, bourses across the region stumbled last week. In a single...
...transparency." "It's a judgement call," says Nicholas Francis of competitive market watchers Reckon. "BBC Online seems to fit in with where it's going anyway." Still, you can bet the BBC will be glued to Kroes' next show. Called To Serve What price politics? If you're Thierry Breton, the answer is about €3.5 million. That's the amount Breton, 50, left on the table when he stepped down as chief executive of France Télécom late last month to become France's new Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, replacing Hervé Gaymard...