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...setting is no coincidence. Kennedy's Paris flat is not far from the fifth, he is fluent in French, and last year he was made a chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His novel tries "to look at Paris in a different way," he says, "through the eyes of immigrants who live there but seldom come in contact with white French natives...
...setting is no accident. Kennedy's Paris flat is not far from the fifth, he is fluent in French and last year was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. One day he was shocked to see Paris police randomly stopping nonwhites. Then, while searching for an obscure cinema ("I'm a big movie buff, five or six a week"), he discovered the 10th arrondissement's rich stew of African and Asian ethnicity. His novel tries "to look at Paris in a different way," he says, "through the eyes of immigrants who live there but seldom...
...would commandingly outweigh the latter). The iPhone isn't just the gadget du jour, it's a fresh new platform, an exceptionally powerful mobile computer that's still in its infancy. There's a full version of Apple's desktop operating system in there. The Palm and the Treo, et al., were merely harbingers of the era of true walk-around mobile computing that Jobs has just inaugurated. Hail to the chief...
...also led an undergraduate seminar on political economy. On the syllabus: “Privatizing Russia,” by Shleifer et...
Primed by inspirational speakers and self-congratulatory messages, it’s difficult to go through graduation without feeling the need to save the world from its mounting problems—global warming, conflict in the Middle East, et cetera. But before charging off full of hubris and missionary zeal, it seems appropriate to take stock and bask in mankind’s flourishing success: We live in an era of unprecedented human well-being...