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...equivalent to a supreme court - where she acted as that body's leading ethicist. When her term as justice expired in 2001, she continued advising the E.U. and was putting together a private legal practice specializing in bioethics issues when she received the call from Raffarin. Given the friction that many of France's domestic policies promise to create with its European partners, Lenoir may need all the connections and accumulated goodwill she has acquired. But her easygoing demeanor, eagerness to drop French for English to facilitate discussion and engaging discourse (perfected during teaching stints at Columbia and Yale Universities...
...many women who began their undergraduate careers in the Quad later transferred to the River Houses despite social friction and occasional sexism...
...film About Schmidt, searched for a TV where he could watch his beloved Lakers game. Best of all, MARTIN SCORSESE showed 20 tantalizing minutes of clips from his long-delayed epic Gangs of New York in the company of stars LEONARDO DI CAPRIO and CAMERON DIAZ. Rumors of friction between Scorsese and Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein had scorched the Riviera, but over dinner at the posh Eden Roc Restaurant, the two chatted genially, not once shying rolls at each other...
...Debby, runs a used clothing store. Smitten and desperate Binny finds Debby again and they begin a tenuous relationship. Watson has given us two very convincing male wankers in "Breakfast After Noon" and "Slow News Day," but this time it's the snobbish and secretive Debby who provides the friction. "Binny's not boyfriend material," declares the two-timing Debs. Typical of Watson's style, Binny may not, in fact, be boyfriend material. He's got no job, mooches off friends, and fills his life with other people's cast-offs. Eventually a dramatic English downpour brings things to head...
...prevalent view is that the availability of new territory for campus expansion will lower the pressure for growth on the Cambridge side of the river and reduce friction between Harvard and Cambridge. Although there is no question that large-scale development of any kind in the midst of a dense, well-established city causes considerable friction between neighbors, this view may be too optimistic...