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...planners of the Charlesview redevelopment project defended their proposal at a public meeting last night, justifying the buildings’ height and the high density of the planned residence by citing local housing demand and space constraints—but Allston residents remained critical. As part of a land swap finalized in November, Charlesview—a low-cost, five-acre apartment complex currently located next to Harvard Business School—will be moved to a 6.9-acre plot further down Western Avenue. Sporting stickers that read “I support Charlesview, but not this proposal...
...This movie is doing what [author Marcel] Pagnol did for the Provençals: showing that people broadly considered buffoonish and stupid are actually very interesting, alluring, and deeply human," says Patrice Languetif, a Paris jeweler who spends much of his free time in his home in Ch'ti-land. "I've never seen Ch'tis prouder since this movie came out. I'm also getting requests from Paris friends who never showed any interest in the north before to go up there with me on weekends. The film has given a lot of relief...
...Abrams, a manager in France's postal system whose efforts to finagle a transfer to the sunny Riviera go wildly wrong. His bosses punish him by sending him instead to the Nord Pas de Calais, warning him of its reputed cold, gloom, incessant rain, and expanses of flat, barren land pocked by slag heaps, abandoned mines, and derelict factories. Just as dismal, he is told, are the region's residents: beer-guzzling, perpetually-unemployed louts who never saw anything deep-fried they didn't love; who pack large, allegedly inbred families into dilapidated brick row houses; and whose "Ch'timi...
...lost it (6-4) on his opponent’s next service game.At first it didn’t look like Nguyen would even reach the third set. Strong serves off his opponent’s racket combined with an inconsistent start on Nguyen’s part to land him a 6-0 loss in the first set.“The team’s been on my case the last few matches for holding back, for not playing my gamestyle, for not playing aggressively,” Nguyen said.In the second set, Nguyen took his teammates?...
...promising performance, making good on his ranking by taking fourth in the weight class in remarkable fashion. Jantzen earned a fall in his first round bout in only 24 seconds before defeating Cornell’s Adam Frey, 11-7, in a hard-fought quarterfinal match. Jantzen could not land an upset against top-seeded Matthew Kyler, but the rookie did maintain his confidence and fought his way to the third-place match. The freshman forfeited the match midway through, though, in order to rest his nagging injuries before Nationals. While Jantzen and O’Connor will...