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Wednesday is a busy day for the Tati discount store on the Rue de Rennes in Paris. School is out that afternoon, and mothers, particularly those with modest incomes, flock to Tati with their children in search of bargains. Thus the sidewalk in front of the store was bustling last week at 5:28 p.m., when two black-mustachioed men in a black BMW drove past. As the car slowed down, the man on the passenger side got out and dropped a package into a trash can near the front door. He quickly hopped back into the car and rode...
...doubtlessly true that many faculty work hard, but this community likes to think it rewards accomplishment. Lee's work has led to remarkably successful classes. And success has led to more work, as undergraduates flock--with their questions, late-night phone calls and other demands--to Lee's History 1711, "The United States and East Asia," and other offerings...
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the only institution of its kind within a U.S. university, teaches governance to 700 full-time students and is host at any given time to some 600 government officials -- Congressmen, Governors, big- and little-city mayors and Cabinet members -- who flock there for guidance...
...Harvard's excesses and indulgences can be attributed to that culture, so must its successes and triumphs. Harvard cannot exist apart from America, the Earth or the solar system. Those who flock through its gates to study, live, love and learn, must remember from whence they, and the University's greatness itself, came...
...week. Jackson, 44, gave an uncompromising keynote at the annual convention of Operation PUSH, the civil rights group he founded 15 years ago, a day after playing host at a dinner for Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Robertson proved in Tuesday's Michigan primaries that he can turn his faithful flock into grass-roots political organizers and then headed off to Iowa, where the first real presidential caucus will be held almost 18 months from now. In the long run Jackson is likely to wield more clout. One reason: he can make a credible threat of mounting a disruptive third-party...