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France won't soon forget that spring, when ferocious student riots brought down a government, and at times last week Paris seemed to be reliving those tumultuous days. Night after night, another set of embittered citizens turned their forgotten wastelands into a battleground. The skies burned red. Crowds of stone throwers clashed with police, while shadowed figures hurled Molotov cocktails at cars and buses. The rioters were mostly Arab or black, but they were also mostly French, born and bred in the neighborhoods they were setting ablaze. Their anger spread in an arc across northern Paris, just a few miles...
...issues in the past tense. So much of 1993's art amounted to a gigantic act of pained remembrance. Experience the Holocaust, in a museum or a movie. Look clearly at Jack Kennedy, or recycle Teddy into pulp. Watch the Great Depression in four weekly installments. Today those who forget the past are condemned to relive it -- on the big screen or small. It is also salutary to recall 1993's failings: Mitch Williams in the World Series, Chevy Chase on late-night TV, Michael Jackson in the court of public $ opinion. Everyone, after all, builds a future...
...PRESIDENCY: Blasts from the Past Bill's Nemesis: The college acquaintance who won't forget...
...right angles of his silvering haircut and goatee intensify his wide, round eyes, rendering him by turn ingenuous, nervous, or boyishly elated. Externals aside, Hollinghurst suffers another setback: he refuses to keep track of his own credentials. He never re-reads his publications, and by now claims to forget most of “The Swimming Pool Library,” with subsequent novels slipping toward the same oblivion.His own personal story fares better, as he still remembers his first stabs at authorship – “writing poems was the ‘cool thing?...
...tragedy, of course, is that we live amidst the ruins of a functioning House system. We have mostly nominal House Masters and Senior Common Room members, and a mostly unpublicized—though decent—games system in intramural athletics (IMs). And who can forget the grossly inefficient 13 dining halls that we run precisely because of these Houses in the first place...