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...Meanwhile in Berne, French coach Raymond Domenech spent more time sparring with the media than focusing on his team's big choc with the Netherlands. His vegetative side simply had no strategy to take down the strong Dutch team, and it showed. After some polite and tense foreplay, the Netherlands exploded in a sparkling offensive action on a corner kick that ended with Liverpool striker Dirk Kuyt scoring nine minutes in. The French struggled to survive the half, then came out after the interval ready for payback. Les Bleus pushed, shoved, sprinted, and fought to stay alive, but the Dutch...
...conservative traditionalism exists on the Wellesley campus when it comes to sex, dating, relationships, and even marriage. While Wellesley is highly tolerant of differing views on sexuality—and this is a wonderful thing—it is absurd to stereotype its student body as decadently promiscuous or choc full of lesbians uniformly hostile to stay-at-home motherhood...
...Robert Crumb were ever to adapt Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade books, it would have something of the resonance this Tardi/Malet team has for this work. Malet's Nestor Burma, detective de choc, or ace detective, appears in multiple hardboiled volumes and has been adapted to film and television. Tardi, like Crumb, became a major comix creator during the 1970s, though unlike Crumb, he didn't have to go underground to do it. Art Spiegelman's forward to the book describes Tardi as "one of the single most influential comix artists to come out of the French adult comics revolution...
...like a box of choc--well, okay, maybe more like a bag of M&Ms. You never know what you're going to get with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's impressively diverse programs, just as the color of your M&Ms remain a mystery until they're in your hand, and both the concerts and the candy are of uniformly high quality. In fact, the exquisite ensemble of HRO might be preferable to the chocolate...
...Dear Choc...