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...Taken together, the various releases demonstrate the deep shadow Mitterrand still casts over France nine years after his death. "He remains fascinating to people of the left and the right," says ex-Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine, a key Mitterrand adviser and current president of the Institut François-Mitterrand, an institution devoted to preserving Mitterrand's memory. "Sixty years of political life during very troubled political times, his move from the right to the left, his intellectual authority, psychological strength, and stupendous culture - it all adds up to a romantic figure...
...tiresome screed about the perils of globalization, Mondovino makes its argument by portraying the outsized personalities Nossiter finds across the spectrum of the wine-making world. We hear the emphatic musings of Languedoc vintner Aimé Guibert, who calls wine "mankind's quasi-religious relationship with the natural elements." Hubert de Montille, a hilariously irascible winemaker from Burgundy, points out that "where there are vines, there is civilization." Nossiter makes no bones about his allegiances. "We're in the thick of the battle for the survival of wine as an expression of individual complexity, up against the complex forces...
...HUBERT VEDRINE Former Foreign Minister of France Europeans want the United States to respect them, to accept divergence of position and to be ecologically responsible. The world has not become anti-American; it's demanding to be listened to. It has things to tell America if she would be so good as to listen...
Robert Drew’s 1960 film Primary, which kicked off the HFA film series on Thursday, chronicles the efforts of John F. Kennedy ’40, who was also a Crimson editor, to defeat Hubert H. Humphrey for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. It is widely seen as the first foray into the politics of cinéma vérité (sometimes termed “direct cinema”), a subset of the documentary genre featuring factual portrayal of the subject’s activities, with minimal interference by the director...
...HUBERT JOLY Globetrotter At first glance, Hubert Joly, 45, a former technology consultant and ex-chief of Universal Vivendi's game division, seems like an unlikely executive to lead Carlson Wagonlit Travel, the world's second largest business-travel company. But the French-born Joly, who loves to travel with his wife and two teenagers, insists that technology is what the $11.5 billion, Paris-based firm, with 12,500 employees in 140 countries, needs most to compete with online travel services like Expedia. His expertise should also help him handle the deregulation of reservation systems like Sabre...