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...global marketplace is changing rapidly, and without employment flexibility, France will not be able to compete. People of my generation in the U.S. learned that we're the only ones who can secure our future. That would be a good lesson for French students to start learning today. Carolyn Davenport-Moncel Courbevoie, France I am an 18-year-old French student. I agree with your article about the French fear of change. While France has a particularly powerful and efficient public system of free tuition, medical and unemployment insurance and pension plans, all these lead us to be very demanding...
...composer Igor Stravinsky. Ostensibly they were there to celebrate the premier of Stravinsky's ballet Le Renard, performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The real reason: so a wealthy English arts patron, Sydney Schiff, could bring together the giants he worshipped. In A Night at the Majestic, Richard Davenport-Hines brilliantly reimagines this unique-in-art-history event, setting the five-star diners in their Modernist context, between Picasso's first and shocking foray into Cubism, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1906-7, and Joyce's revolutionary novel, Ulysses, in 1922. The ambitious Schiff was pinning his hopes...
...kids?who by nature desperately want to belong?the feeling of alienation can be so painful that they will do almost anything to make it go away, to fit in. For years, Mark Hong, 31, shunned the only other Asian kid he knew in Davenport, Iowa, and hung out with the popular?and other than him, entirely white?crowd at school: the jocks. "I repelled anything that was Asian because it represented everything that was not cool at the time. Asians did kung fu and worked at Asian restaurants," he explains. That his Korean-born dad was actually an engineer...
...HAYES H. DAVENPORT...
...fundraising effort in development is a “Watch-A-Thon,” in which participants would be sponsored to see as many movies as they can over a period of time—costing the student film-goer nothing but the effort to find support.Hayes H. Davenport ’08, who says he goes to the Brattle four or five times a month, counts the Brattle’s proximity and colorful selection of movies as reasons for his support. “The staff there is as excited as any customer about what they?...