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Meriweather H. Burruss ’11 is on a tight schedule. Not only does she have a french test, ski team practice, and dinner plans with her dad, but she is also part of FM’s Fast Fashion Challenge. Her many other commitments for the day leave her with only one and a half hours to buy her materials and make some serious progress on her Bill Gates (initially class of 1977, although subsequent drop-out) inspired design. She is enthusiastically tearing apart the seams of a large men’s oxford shirt when I meet...
...greater indictment of a peacekeeping mission than when it is attacked by the people it was sent to protect. But that is what's happening to the U.N.'s biggest peacekeeping mission, the 17,000 blue helmets in the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.) known by the French acronym MONUC. On Monday, one person died when hundreds of protesters attacked the mission in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, on the border with Rwanda. The protesters say the U.N. is not doing enough to protect them from an advancing rebel army. Several U.N. compounds in the city were attacked, said...
...disparaging theories about what he was doing before he died. Hilarity ensued when the scientists, with very thick and believable accents, began arguing their own theories and fighting for the microphone. Sarah T. Christian ’11 deserves special praise for her convincing portrayal of the French scientist.Lloyd-Bollard, as Alice, gave the strongest and most natural performance of the night. She seemed surprisingly comfortable on stage partially nude, and she successfully conveyed the internal battle she faced between piecing together her past and moving on into the future. Still, the plot was extremely confusing at times, and events...
...many leaders-particularly French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown-want to go beyond that activity and place the IMF at the center of a reformed, unified, and better-regulated global finance system. Sarkozy has gone so far as to call for the "moralization of finance markets" and "re-foundation of capitalism". Though the most rabid adepts of laissez-faire systems like the U.S. are expected to rebuff such efforts to impose international strictures, Strauss-Kahn's profile as a respected economist and market-friendly leftist leaves him in a rare spot: The head of an international...
...French reaction to Strauss-Kahn's IMF trouble has generally called it a reflection of notorious puritanical American social obsessions that extend into the private affairs of public figures. Perhaps, but the so-called "people-ization" of politics in France--and accompanying media willingness to offer up formerly off-limits details of politicians' lives-considerably raises the possibility of sex and dalliances becoming game-changing concerns in future French elections. However, throwing that first stone may be perilous, "because this kind of thing isn't reserved to Strauss-Kahn, or even the left, since we know many conservatives go astray...