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Tourists have long admired Saint-Gilles for its ancient center: narrow streets, tightly packed stone buildings and 12th century monastery ruins. Its more recent political history, however, has given this Languedoc town a kind of ill fame across France. In 1989, Saint-Gilles became the first town to elect a mayor from the extreme-right National Front party. The National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a perennial loser in presidential elections, has consistently placed first in Saint-Gilles. In short, the town has voted for the kind of xenophobic zealotry that for many years was disavowed by polite French...
...Green ’06 blogs and reports for U.S. News & World Report.Reflecting a national trend, Harvard students are flooding the blogosphere, individually and in groups, covering their own lives, Harvard life (like Cambridge Common and the again-defunct Team Zebra), and the world. These journalists have used the fame of their blogs and their technological savvy to win everything from book deals, to journalism jobs, to the hatred of would-be brides everywhere. BLOGS FOR BLOGS’ SAKEA political junkie, activist, and blogger for Cambridge Common while on Harvard’s campus, Andrew H. Golis...
...Upwelling, has drawn comparisons to Pink Floyd, the Police and Leonard Cohen. Commendable influences to be sure, but one wonders if the College Events Board mightn’t have chosen a group with a broader fan base: Aqua, of ”Barbie Girl” fame, leaps to mind. Apparently, the eponymous doll serves as a metaphor for soulless corporate conformity, a more resonant message with Harvard’s highbrow listeners. The choice of Third Eye Blind was made in the spirit of universality, eschewing the flash-in-the-pan noise of Radiohead?...
...controlling forces of destiny—for good or ill.IT IS YOUR DESTINY“First Snow” is a movie about fate and the inevitable consequence of one’s decisions. The main character, Jimmy (Guy Pearce, of “Memento” fame), is haunted by the grim predictions of a roadside fortune teller who warns that his life is safe only until “the first snow.”At first a quick-talking and overconfident salesman, Jimmy grows paranoid and introspective, fearing that someone or something from his past...
...stars, that kind of wild exuberance and excess is nothing new.BRIDE AND GROOM“Blades of Glory,” out March 30, features “Saturday Night Live” star Poehler along with her husband Will Arnett (of “Arrested Development” fame), Jon Heder of “Napoleon Dynamite,” and comedy royalty Will Ferrell.It tells the story of two rival world-class men’s singles skaters who were once banned from the men’s singles competition, but find a loophole to compete in pairs...