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...interview in the office of the grand Left Bank apartment he shares with his wife, the actress and singer Arielle Dombasle. Beside his couch sits a large hollow bronze head of Lenin, its hinged temples left open to show nothing inside, as if to demonstrate Lévy's keen distaste for dogma of whatever kind. "In an obscure affair like this one, there is no final truth," he says. "It was important that the author, who was searching and sometime erring, be present." As an admirer of Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, Lévy blurs the line between...
...Keen on the idea of participating, Yesilevsky sent an e-mail out over several House e-mail lists looking for a partner. What type of person fits the bill? A person “who’s especially good at preparing various kinds of meat and marinades, and who’s charismatic on camera,” she says...
Dershowitz, Kosslyn and Rosovsky each herald Epstein’s keen intelligence, sharp wit and his uncommon interest in the sciences...
Moreover, few Harvard students are content to take part in extracurriculars for their own sakes; involvement is almost always contingent upon rising up the ranks to a leadership position. Harvard students almost always led their chosen extracurriculars in high school—and they aren’t keen to change that pattern after arriving in Cambridge. Those students who do not make the cut almost always leave to join (or form) other organizations where they feel that they can make more of a mark. Harvard extracurriculars make McKinsey’s famous two-year...
...gives it little alternative. Chirac's phone call on Tuesday to Bush - their first conversation since Feb. 7, characterized as "positive" by the Elysée and as "business-like" by the White House - was a station of the cross on that pre-Easter walk to resurrection. "We are keen to avoid further friction," says a senior French Foreign Ministry official. The watchword in Paris seems to have changed from principle to pragmatism. The first fences to mend are those with some of France's European Union partners. In Athens last week, E.U. leaders offered a picture of comity...