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...Edith Piaf. Writer-director Olivier Dahan, has given her story a sumptuous production - with the look of an old-fashioned Hollywood musical sob story - as well as a maddeningly fragmented structure. For reasons best known to Dahan, he is always cutting from Piaf (played by Marion Cotillard) at the height of her relatively brief life (she was discovered in 1935 and died, at age 47, in 1963) to this or that aspect of her dismal past - her desertion by her mad mother, the years she spent in her grandmother's brothel (no, she was never a working girl, though that...
...years ago, a high-ranking black dean at Harvard was stopped by the campus police because he allegedly “fit the description” of a perpetrator. For white Americans, who are most accustomed to distinguishing males from each other according to their height, hair color, and eye color, many black males look alike. The dean’s student work-study assistants were reportedly called upon by the police to vouch for the dean’s legitimacy. No more in this case than in the others does the subsequent apology erase the humiliation of a victim...
...height of this confusion came in 2005. In March, after the review had been on hold for months because of the Summers affair, the Faculty Council, FAS’s governing body, blocked the proposals of a general education committee from ever reaching the full Faculty because they were so devoid of philosophy and meaning. Scrambling to salvage the review, a new group of professors released another report in November that attempted to please everyone by requiring students to take three courses each in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Unsurprisingly, this report, which again lacked...
...Crime: A sleeping, pregnant woman was attacked and assaulted at knifepoint in her bed in 1985 in Texas. The victim gave police a detailed description of her attacker, including clothing, facial features, age and height. She said he was a white man whose skin was "a honey brown color." Four months later, the victim saw Byrd, who is black, at a grocery store and said he was the man who had raped her. Based on this identification, Byrd was convicted of rape and sentenced to life in prison...
...When you analyze the search terms that contained "jordin sparks" over the last four weeks, 5.9% of those searches were about the singer's physical stature, with searches such as "jordin sparks height," "how tall is jordin sparks," even "jordin sparks shoe size." Over 3.1% of her searches were about her father, former New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys cornerback Phillipi Sparks. Less than 1% of Jordin's searches were related to her music, with the top search focused on her cover last week of "I Who Have Nothing." You also have to consider the non-conventional spelling...