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...They outtoughed us. They didn’t get down from adversity. They picked themselves up and made a great comeback,” Penn Coach Fran Dunphy said...
...Coach: Fran Dunphy, 13th year...
...Kabul, many works of art that flowed from the cultural confluences in Afghanistan over thousands of years have been saved by traffickers selling them to outsiders, or by foreign archaeological expeditions. One of the most important of the latter was the Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan, which was invited there in 1922 by the then King and which excavated near Kabul what has become known as the treasure of Begram. Among its finds was a trunk covered in carved ivory. Photos of it in the Guimet Museum show reliefs of naked, large...
...late french President François Mitterrand was criticized for the regal manner in which he occupied his office, the activities of his eldest son also seem characteristic of a royal family - of the dysfunctional kind. Just nine months after his release from provisional detention for suspected involvement in illegal arms trafficking, Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, in a new book, exonerates himself not only of those charges but also of his life in general. In Mémoire Meurtrie (Battered Memory), Mitterrand fils, 54, casts himself as - what else? - a victim, first of a hard, cynical family, and then of outsiders...
...always prepared for any eventuality, (“I wouldn’t clear my throat without a backup plan,” he says). But he is getting old and would like to retire and live a calm, peaceful life with his beautiful wife and accomplice, Fran (Rebecca Pidgeon). This becomes an even better plan after he is forced to show his face on a security camera in order to complete a robbery without resorting to violence. But matters become complicated when his fence, Bergman (Danny DeVito), strong-arms him into taking a risky last job that involves...