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...which was left largely untouched by three weeks of violent confrontations between rioters and police. “I haven’t seen major panic in the Parisian streets, maybe because I live rather far away from where the disturbances that are taking place.” said Glenda Aldana ’07, who is spending the fall semester studying in the French capital. “Talking to other Parisians, I’ve also noticed that they are not very alarmed; the violence seems pretty removed from Paris itself.” The violence was sparked...
...hands full around Basra? Were the Americans going to suck them into a heavy-handed assault on Fallujah, undermining the British army's reputation? The darkest suspicion was that Blair was trying to boost George W. Bush on the eve of the U.S. election - the actress and Labour M.P. Glenda Jackson said she feared British troops were being "reduced to the level of mercenaries for a Republican White House." But the military rode to Blair's rescue. General Michael Walker, Chief of the Defense Staff, said that the request had come through...
...most valuable fixture in the show is 20-year-old Lauren Bacall. [She] has cinema personality to burn, and she burns both ends against an unusually little middle. Her personality is compounded partly of percolated Davis, Garbo, West, Dietrich, Harlow and Glenda Farrell, but more than enough of it is completely new to the screen. She has a javelinlike vitality, a born dancer's eloquence in movement, a fierce female shrewdness and a special sweet-sourness. With these faculties, plus a stone-crushing self-confidence and a trombone voice, she manages to get across the toughest girl a piously regenerate...
...vote. (In Florida, convicted felons must apply to get back their voting rights after their sentences are complete, though few manage to do so.) Those disenfranchised voters took on increased significance when Bush won the state by just 537 votes. Have the snafus been fixed? Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood has now told county supervisors that 47,000 more names are likely to be purged from the voter rolls this year, and election watchdogs fear that Florida is poised to repeat the mistakes of 2000 on a much larger scale...
...It’s a shift away from very visible public intellectuals to very prolific intellectuals who are not necessarily recognizable in a public sphere,” says Glenda R. Carpio, assistant professor of African and African American Studies. “That’s a significant shift, and it’s going to take some time for the number of concentrators to catch...