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Lincoln's assassination initiated an even more long-lasting tribute to Moses, the Statue of Liberty, given to America by the French to honor the slain President. The sculptor, Fr??dric Bartholdi, chose the goddess of liberty as his model, but he enhanced her with two icons from Moses: the nimbus of light around her head and the tablet in her arms, both from the moment Moses descends Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments. The message: Freedom comes with...
...makes Saw look like Dora the Explorer. It's as if these European writers are laughing at their prim American counterparts, with their fussy scruples, the way Sudanese warlords laugh at American gangsta rappers. "Violence?" they seem to say. "War? What do you know about it, mon semblable, mon fr??re? You've been a country for 200 years. We've got 30 centuries of blood in our soil...
...react to music emotionally,” he explains. “I’m very expressive with my playing.” Tam’s favorite composer is Fr??déric Chopin...
...side in booths and field calls from Russians asking to borrow money. Most of the time, the answer is a resounding yes. Owned by the French bank Socit Gnrale, Rusfinance is aiming to build a massive presence in Russia. Back in Paris, SocGen's chief executive, Fr??dric Ouda, even talks about Russia becoming the bank's second biggest market, after France...
Football is not just for jocks, as Harvard Business School Professor Alvin E. Roth showed by using college football bowl games to analyze inefficient matching in markets. Working with economists M. Utku Ünver and Guillaume R. Fr??chette of Boston College and New York University, respectively, the researchers Roth compared the selection of teams for college bowls prior to and after the creation of a team matching system in 1992. The three professors developed the idea to study bowl games while Ünver and Fr??chette were research fellows together at the Business School between...