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There's a beautiful scene between two intimate friends, Ma?ta (Elodie Bouchez) and Francois (Gael Morel), in Andra Tachina's Wild Reeds, set in the south of France in 1962. The two teens have kept company partly to defer any plunge into sexual commitment. Now Francois confesses he has had sex with someone else. Maite is shocked. But with another boy -- and she feels a kind of relief. As Smoke Gets in Your Eyes plays soulfully, she pulls Francois into a slow-dance clinch. Then, abruptly, the Beach Boys' Barbara Ann comes on. The two start jitterbugging, Maite breaks...
Gina Grant graduated from the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School yesterday, and may defer entering college for a year, according to her uncle...
...phenomenon called summer melt," Lewis said. "A few students who are planning to attend at this point will decide to defer. You can never tell for sure, so you always need a couple of extra students...
...nation is unwilling to provide absolutely complete access to United Nations observers in all of its nuclear facilities, other countries have every right to deny that nation nuclear power. Any discussion of an `international invasion of privacy' must defer to a far more pressing issue; a nuclear unknown quantity poses a security risk to every other nation in the world...
...Simply because he is black, Washington and his partners were able to make a special tax deferral part of their $2.3 billion acquisition of Viacom Inc.'s cable systems. Under the provision, a company that sells a cable system to a partnership controlled by a minority can qualify to defer its capital gains on the sale indefinitely. The law was designed to encourage minority ownership of broadcast properties, a fact Washington knows better than most. He wrote the original policy at the FCC in the late 1970s and since then has secured the tax break for five similar transactions. Those...