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Whether such efforts will have much impact on foreign perception is another matter. In a September poll of 1,310 Americans for Le Figaro magazine, only 20% considered culture to be a domain in which France excels, far behind cuisine. Domestic expectations are low as well. Many French believe the country and its culture have been in decline since - pick a date: 1940 and the humiliating German occupation; 1954, the start of the divisive Algerian conflict; or 1968, the revolutionary year which conservatives like Sarkozy say brought France under the sway of a new, more casual generation that has undermined...
...Dubbed a "health check" for the CAP, the policy review suggests revamping the Union's single biggest policy domain to better address modern challenges like climate change, the boom in biofuels, water management and protecting biodiversity. The Commission floats once heretical ideas such as phasing out milk quotas, scrapping rules on keeping land fallow and guaranteeing minimum cereal prices...
...enter the romantic domain of Gabriel García Márquez’s Cartagena, Columbia during the first few scenes of “Love in the Time of Cholera.” It’s a vibrant place of flailing parakeets and short bursts of subtle humor; an exotic world of humid jungles and colonial facades, of dying doctors and undying love. Is the world about to witness Cartagena’s coronation as the new city of love? Not quite. Mike Newell’s “Love in the Time of Cholera...
...Library Project. Perhaps in a quest to validate a commonly held student belief that all the knowledge in the world is available on Google, the company introduced a Book Search tool in 2004. Google is currently working with Harvard’s library, among others, to scan all public domain books. The company is also scanning copyrighted books, although not at Harvard, allowing them to be searched but not read in their entirety, but faces legal challenges from publishers. Google enables the reader to search these online tomes as well as locate them in the library nearest them. COSTS...
...were willing to miss class in the name of a race-based department might not have foreseen that, thirty years later, minority students would still find themselves questioning their right to study their own ethnicity. It’s no secret that ethnic fields of study are generally the domain of heritage...