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...More “work” or something like it. Hot as hell. Backpack melts. Hair catches on fire. Approached by more laughing teenage girls. At first, this was funny. Now, annoying. Old women give me the evil eye. Old Mexican women distrust me. I look at back at them with ice in my heart, peeling skin on my back and hot sunscreen in my eyes...
...most of his business career working in Mexico City for Coca-Cola, the quintessential American company, and he likes to say--much as Ronald Reagan did--that U.S. business practices can be used to reform federal government. More important, he is culturally a norteno, given to blunt talk, a distrust of the Mexico City bureaucracy and open admiration for the U.S. His National Action Party, or P.A.N., reinvented itself in the northern states of Chihuahua and Baja California, reshaping itself in the 1980s from an ideological right-wing sect to one that championed free elections, civil society and honest government...
...until 1998 that the many years of distrust and disagreement between Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges were put aside and negotiators from both schools got serious about making an agreement. Harvard officially took responsibility for female undergraduates, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study was born. Though the shift was described in simple business terms, it marked the end of years of difficult negotiations with Harvard officials. And Rudenstine was the man who made it happen—the only one who could have brokered such a far reaching , complex deal, say those involved in the process...
...question isn't whether man will survive but whether he deserves to.") The second part, shot digitally in carnival colors, concerns an old couple whose distant past as members of the French Resistance a Hollywood producer wants to turn into a film. This is an expression of Godard's distrust of Steven Spielberg and his film Schindler's List. "Mrs. Schindler was never paid," one character notes. "She's living in poverty in Argentina." Ah, that Godard: he is always serious, always impish. He lives up to his own maxim: "Every thought should show the debris of a smile." Elogie...
...until 1998 that the many years of distrust and disagreement between Harvard and Radcliffe College were put aside and negotiators from both schools got serious about making an agreement. At 12:01 a.m. on October 1, as Radcliffe officials toasted the end of the 120-year-old institution’s independence from Harvard underneath an apple tree in Radcliffe Yard, what was formerly known as Radcliffe College ceased to exist, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study was born...