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Shorenstein Center Fellows and Programs Administrator Edith Holway said that the center weighed past career experience and the currency of applicants’ research proposals to select them from the pool of about 50 applicants. Typically fellows are in the middle of their career and have at least ten years of experience...
...supreme American novelists, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 44, and Nathanael West, 37, died within a day of each other in December 1940. Just a few hours after Edith Piaf died on October 11, 1963, her friend Jean Cocteau passed away as well; some said that France's supreme aesthete did it as the grandest possible gesture of solidarity...
Even on a gray day in Paris last week, there was one place you could find a crowd of tourists from places as varied as Rome, Siberia and Orlando, Fla.--Jim Morrison's grave in Père-Lachaise cemetery. Forget Frédéric Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf and the hundreds of other luminaries interred among its chestnut trees. The frontman of the Doors has been the cemetery's headline draw ever since the rock star's untimely death in Paris at the age of 27 in July...
...fellowships saw falling numbers in 2007, however. The Shorenstein Fellowship, a Kennedy School program which invites applicants to spend a semester at Harvard writing about the press and politics, did not notice a decline in applicants, according to Shorenstein Center Fellows and Programs Administrator Edith M. Holway...
...there is no rhyme or reason to this jumble - except perhaps to stress Edith's endless self-victimization. This lack of narrative coherence naturally has the effect of distancing us from her story. I guess Dahan thinks it really only has one point - her misery - and that it doesn't make much difference what order he presents it. Cotillard appears to be as tiny as Piaf was (the singer was only 4' 8") and she acts neurasthenic as all get out, but somehow her constantly victimized state works against our sympathetic response, particularly since the film's random structure often...