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French President Nicolas Sarkozy—renegade Gallic right-winger and scourge of les pouvoirs-qui-sont—campaigned on an image as the ruthless reformer of a defunct bureaucracy and a law and order fanatic. As Minister of the Interior, he rejected the liberal elite’s Chamberlain-complaisance amid the swells of exurban civil unrest, denouncing the young, disaffected, and largely Arab agitators as “racaille” (rabble), an inflammatory move many considered imprudent...
...wife is my number one match on the site.” Best known for creating SparkNotes—a book summary service that was bought by the bookstore Barnes & Noble in March 2001—the trio first ventured into the love market in 1999 with their now-defunct site, TheSpark.com. A decade later, they credit their success to the University’s own matchmakers. “I owe everything in life to the Freshman Dean’s Office,” Yagan says. —Staff writer Lingbo Li can be reached at lingboli@fas.harvard.edu...
...publications too poor to pay him anything besides meals and flagons of cheap wine. He eventually began earning notice as a crime reporter on Sydney's Daily Telegraph, but it was only when he went to Hong Kong in 1968, to take up a job on a now defunct tabloid, that his passion for journalism became wedded to his love for a place...
This kind of thing has precedent. In 1997 the album The Buena Vista Social Club hit big with a sound defunct even in its native Cuba. In 2000 the old-timey twang of the Coen Brothers' film O Brother, Where Art Thou? grabbed a handful of Grammys. How do you revive an art form? A few hints...
...Club, founded in 1981, uses the building that houses the men’s clothing store J. Press at 45 Dunster Street, the former home to the now-defunct D.U. Club...