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...speak French with a Provençal twang. He feels right at home in Europe where, he says, gifted people aren't pigeonholed. America has experts, says Malkovich, but Europe can yield magisterial figures like the late Pier Paolo Pasolini, a political thinker, novelist and film director. Another inspiration: Jean-François Revel, whose bestselling book, The Anti-American Obsession, is only the latest reflection of the author's catholic interests from Proust to political philosophy. "Here there is more apt to be infiltration from one form to another," Malkovich says. The theme of crossover - between theater and film...
...Friede Springer, giving her control. Turning Each Other On The U.K.'s two largest commercial broadcasters, Carlton and Granada, agreed on merger plans to create a new company worth over $4 billion. The deal will face strict regulatory scrutiny. There's No Place Like Home Further undoing former CEO Jean-Marie Messier's strategy, Vivendi is moving control from New York back to Paris. Vivendi will also finalize its €12 billion disposal plan this week. Growing Pings HSBC continued its international expansion, buying a 10% stake in China's No. 2 insurer, Ping An, for $600 million. INDICATORS Chocolate...
...make sense of mathematical principles from objects found in the natural world," says Jane M. Healy, an educational psychologist and author of Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Mind--and What We Can Do About It. This philosophy--championed most famously by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget--explains the near ubiquity of counting rods and beads, known in academic circles as manipulatives, in most grade-school classrooms. As kids approach adolescence, however, they may be ready for slightly more abstract methods of learning, and computers may offer just what they need...
...wonder, was the issue still unfixed the day before the election was scheduled to begin? The situation is eerily reminiscent of last May, when students had their hopes raised and then dashed when a planned Wyclef Jean and Jurassic 5 concert was cancelled because Illingworth and the Harvard Concert Commission, a subsidiary of the council, were unable to reach agreement in time to actually sell tickets to the concert...
...true love entails. Harrowing and delicate, this French film transcends case history to become a work of seamless art and broken heart. And for a retreat into luminous, ageless film craft, queue now for Patrice Leconte's L'homme du train, a bittersweet fable about a chatty old schoolteacher (Jean Rochefort) who invites a mysterious gunman (Johnny Hallyday) to stay in his decaying chateau. It's rare to see a film so at ease with its diminutive size, so effortless in its charm and poignancy. Toronto had lots of celebs on display - There's Dustin! There's Denzel!! Sarandon...