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...Carnival of the Vanities.” Dressed up in blazers and smacking of complacent compassion for every cause that crosses their path, candidates advertise their credentials and “their vision for a new UC.” Besides personal networking, the main electoral criterion is the pre-election debate: essentially, how effectively a candidate can give evasive answers to difficult and often irrelevant questions.To an extent, this is the price one pays for holding popular elections. In the case of the UC, however, the whole situation is tragicomic, because the stakes are so low. The UC?...
...York Times noted in August, the book is the latest controversy in a growing literary conspiracy in which powerhouse companies like Viking use an author’s pedigree rather than their talent as their principle publishing criterion. Resist the urge to make another Opal Mehta joke...
Good management like that, something relatively new to the fashion business, is what draws investors in. "That's probably the No. 1 criterion for any private-equity investment," says Philippe Franchet, a partner at L Capital, explaining why they invested in the low-profile Piazza Sempione brand. "The management team is brilliant." Translation: it has a manager with a good production record and a solid business plan. When Enrico Morra, managing director of Piazza Sempione, and the company's founders met with L Capital's partners, they outlined exactly what they wanted to do, including opening more stand-alone stores...
...against two captured French officers (Pierre Fresnay and Jean Gabin) in a gradually warming debate on the codes of honor and survival. But Renoir the humanist is no sentimentalist, as the film's French title makes clear: La Grande Illusion translates as The Big Illusion. This was the first Criterion DVD release, and the supplements show that the company was on its game from the start. There is Renoir's filmed reminiscence of the movie and his own wartime exploits, as well as a fond essay by Von Stroheim on this superb director...
...Moral Tales Eric Rohmer The latestbox from Criterion is one of its biggest--and grandest. Rohmer's lovely, chatty, pensive comedies (including My Night at Maud's and Claire's Knee) arrive with six of the director's short films, his written versions of the Tales in a 262-page book and a pamphlet of essays by top critics. The package serves as both a tribute to Rohmer and a display of Criterion's excellence...