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...reading list that ranges from student blogs to the Congressional Record. And in her graduate-level class on obscenity, media-studies professor Laura Kipnis of Northwestern University examines how publications like Hustler can define class stratification in the U.S.--by discussing the work of the 16th century satirist Fran??ois Rabelais as well as skin magazines...
...Laurent is a visiting scholar from Observatoire Fran??§ais des Conjonctures Économiques at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He and Jacques Le Cacheux co-wrote “Integrity and Efficiency in the EU: The Case against the European Economic Constitution...
...FILMS BY LOUIS MALLE A sort of foster brother of the New Wave directors, Malle is matched only by Fran??ois Truffaut as a memorializer of youth in all its enthralling achiness. This Criterion Collection package brings together (with the usual fabulous extras) three mini-masterpieces: the 1971 Murmur of the Heart, the 1974 Lacombe Lucien and the 1987 Au Revoir les Enfants (below). Sexuality, fascism and racism are the respective issues addressed, but it's the mood that sticks with you: a wise, indulgent longing that is immediately French, indelibly universal...
...engineer by training, Lauvergeon worked as an aide to French President Fran??ois Mitterrand before joining the Lazard investment bank. In the late 1990s, the government asked her to take over Cogema, a state-owned nuclear reprocessing company. Convinced that nuclear power had a big future, she orchestrated a merger with the other state-owned nuclear company, Framatome, which built plants and mined uranium, to create a French colossus. She has sought to create a positive image for the firm and for nuclear power in general by sponsoring the French yacht in the America's Cup race and by launching...
That range of knowledge encompasses not only journalism but baseball as well. In the offseason of 1979-1980, Okrent drew up the rules for a new type of fantasy baseball and pitched it to a group of friends at the Rotissérie Fran??§aise restaurant in New York City. That game would become known as rotisserie baseball, familiar to the millions of fans who now play fantasy sports online. The invention would earn Okrent one of the first two spots in the Fantasy Sports Hall of Fame...