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...familiar to the French as her catalog of hits. And like any good tale, it's often told with much poetic license. The standard version goes something like this: born on a Paris sidewalk, Piaf was raised in her grandmother's brothel in Normandy before her acrobat father took her back to her birthplace. After cabaret owner Louis Leplée discovered her singing in the street, Piaf was soon topping the bill in the city's most exalted venues and conquering America. Oh, and don't forget the miracle that cured her childhood blindness and rumors of her involvement...
...vote for the first time. Conventional wisdom had it that most would support the left. But in the last few years, Le Pen has consciously tried to broaden his political appeal, in a makeover masterminded by his daughter and political strategist Marine. The younger Le Pen has persuaded her father to tone down his more controversial policies, avoid the inflammatory comments that have earned him court convictions in the past, reach out to minorities prepared to work with the party, and project himself, as Le Pen recently put it, as "a candidate of the center right...
...significant other and I were able to attend a fund raiser for Obama before he was elected to the U.S. Senate. We were proud, excited and hopeful that as a black man Obama would be a part of the next generation of leadership. The fact that his father was an African immigrant and his mother was white was not a negative matter to us in any way. We were pleased that a different type of leader was on the horizon. Now that Obama has announced his candidacy for President, we are interested only in his platform and how he runs...
Likewise--without judging the validity of religion--the great religious texts of history are compelling in part because they are, well, Hollywood: that is, great stories with conflict, pathos and magic. A man steals fire from the gods; a father is commanded to kill his son; gods disguise themselves as animals...
Born in Columbus, Ohio on March 15, 1917, Schlesinger left the mid-west for Cambridge at the age of seven, when his father, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., also a leading American historian, joined the faculty at Harvard...