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...Islam in the West” seminars organized by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies here at Harvard. This effort is one of the reasons that led the Center for Middle Eastern Studies to expand and build an interdisciplinary study of the Muslim culture, said Jocelyne Cesari, director of the Islam in the West Institute, a part of the Center. Harvard students and other affiliates have been involved in research and graduate study workshops in the organization’s attempt to assist a contemporary wave of thinking about Islamic culture. The event consisted of two sections: a presentation about...
Sarkozy's basic working style isn't likely to change: he surrounds himself with trusted lieutenants and then keeps a sharp eye on them. "He's not on your back, but he wants to be informed about everything, good or bad," says Eric Cesari, a member of Sarkozy's presidential Cabinet at the Council of Hauts-de-Seine, the suburban belt outside Paris that includes his fiefdom of Neuilly. "He can be demanding, even harsh and rude, but what he wants is that you tell him the truth. He has no use for yes men." Says Jacques Gautier, Sarkozy...
...best thing to do is avoid gereralizations,” said panelist Jocelyne Cesari, Visiting Associate Processor of Islamic Studies at the Harvard Divinity School...
...northern provinces, in his early 20s, to an art world in recession. Rome in 1592 had a great past but a mincing present. The accepted style was a filleted if showy kind of late mannerism, turned out by the frescoed acre by artists like Caravaggio's early master Giuseppe Cesari, alias the Cavaliere d'Arpino. Limp, garrulous, overconceptualized and feverishly second hand, Roman art in 1590 was in some ways like New York art four centuries later. Against its pedantry--the seicento equivalent, perhaps, of our "postmodern" cult of irony--Caravaggio's work proposed a return to the concrete...
...Etait Formidable. Confident that he would be dealing "not with imbecilic bandits but with sensible men who would reflect before acting," Lavalette and his raiders carried no weapons except their prop shotguns. Living up to these expectations, Cesari offered no resistance and, as Lavalette remembered the dialogue, declared solemnly: "Monsieur, permit me to offer you my hand so that I may congratulate you and your men on your job. C'était formidable.'" Replied Lavalette: "Man cher, I accept your congratulations, and I extend you my own. Thanks to you, I have accomplished the most beautiful affair that...