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...fireworks? In Cannes, the response to any question about the town's fondness for excess is: Why not? (Actually, the pyrotechnics were for the Marie Antoinette beach party.) The films in competition for the Palme d'Or tend to be a solemn lot, so any spiking of the punch bowl is welcome. The occasional midnight screenings of non-competing films is also a chance for the locals to snag a few free tickets, put on their best duds and see a movie. On the red-carpeted steps usually reserved for directors and stars, hundreds of Cannes residents snapped photos...
...sides. What propels us ahead also burdens us with others’ expectations. It is in these expectations, I think, that the true meaning of a Harvard education lies. In fighting to show others that we deserved our vaunted diplomas, we will be driven to excel, and to excess. The gnawing self-doubt that follows us on our fall from the Ivory Tower will be both a paralytic and a catalytic agent...
...will quickly become unsustainable. If at that point, central bankers were to remain obsessed with inflation, deeper and still more problematic cracks would open in the world economy. With investors reeling, the world carrying unprecedented levels of debt, and the U.S. sucking up virtually all of the world's excess savings to cover its own financial shortfall, this is not the time for a major monetary miscue. What is really troubling markets is not so much inflation, for the factors that might drive global prices higher continue to be overwhelmed by powerful underlying forces. Rather it is the fear that...
...weight loss to most lightweights is a very individualized, practiced routine, one fine-tuned over their years with the varsity. Most are rigid in their approach, sure that their method works and often wary of the advice of a teammate. It’s a private ritual, bordering on excessive and obsessive, yet made very safe by familiarity and experience. I felt, throughout my time talking and eating with the lightweights, that they knew exactly what they were doing down to the last fraction of a pound.The tortuous journey from Monday to Friday and from season to season hardens...
There are all kinds of reasons why the Duke rape case landed center stage two months ago and has stayed there ever since. In the early days, Mike Nifong, the prosecutor who was up for reelection on May 2 (he won) was accused of an excess of zeal, not to mention an obsession with media visibility, in the days leading up to the arrest of two members of the Duke Lacrosse team...