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...envying the Harvard men's basketball team their trip out to Stanford University last weekend--they saw more of the inside of airports, gyms and hotel rooms than of sunny beaches and San Francisco sights. Rising at 6 a.m. Saturday morning, they went to the airport, flew to San Fran, had a two-hour practice, ate dinner, and then observed a 10 p.m. curfew by going to bed. The following day they played Stanford and lost miserably, and Monday morning they caught a 5:15 a.m. plane bound for Boston. There were tiny patches of fun during the trip, however...
...murky political fortunes was unexpected and, like so many events that have preceded it, open to many interpretations. But if Gaddafi does indeed pull out all his troops, it would clearly be a triumph for the diplomatic tactics of the Socialist government of France's President François Mitterrand...
...nuclear missiles in Europe. The smallest turnout was in Paris, where only 40,000 marched, a reflection of the fact that France remains on the periphery of the peace movement that is rising across the Continent. The Communists were the only major party supporting the protest, and President François Mitterrand's ruling Socialists, who happened to be having their annual conference in Valence, made clear their support of the installation of the U.S. missiles...
With some of France's best legal and economic minds at its disposal, President François Mitterrand's Socialist Party had a full decade to plot how to fulfill a key campaign promise: the nationalization of major industries and private banks. Yet by the time the National Assembly approved the first batch of takeovers last week, 332 to 154, capitalists had found an embarrassingly gaping hole in Mitterrand's plan and put one of French banking's most glittering prizes out of reach of the Socialists...
...with François Truffaut's The Woman Next Door. "Yes, that's the way these things often go," one says, thinking back over the film in those mulling moments so kindly provided by traffic jams and checkout-counter lines. Indeed, one rather imagines it was blank moments like those that kept Bernard (Gérard Depardieu) and Mathilde (Fanny Ardant, a particularly lovely newcomer) alive in each other's minds between the bitter breakup of their tumultuous romance and their next meeting, seven years later. This occurs when Mathilde and her new husband happen to move...