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...Born in Lyon in 1924, Jarre was no child prodigy; he was in his late teens before he decided to study music. In Paris after the war he hooked up with two exceptional impresarios of French theater: Jean-Louis Barrault and Jean Vilar. For Vilar he wrote incidental music for modern readings of classical plays. In 1951, Georges Franju, a director of spare, uncompromising documentaries, hired Jarre to score his film essay on wounded veterans, the 1951 Hôtel des Invalides. In the next dozen years they would collaborate on two more shorts and five sepulchral features, including Head...
...regulation of credit-default swaps) that would be traded through a clearinghouse. Finally, endowing the government with the power to resolve large, failing financial institutions other than banks would fill the power vacuum plaguing the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as of late. Geithner’s plan is complex and still in its infant stages: Thursday’s proposal left many details up in the air so that productive exchange with lawmakers can occur in the near future. Surely, it will undergo much revision and debate as it works its way through opposition...
...four off of Crimson bats—Harvard had to climb out of a hole again due to a three-run Penn first inning against the starter Zailskas. An eight-run sixth, which chased Zailskas and battered freshman reliever Will Keuper, seemed to doom the Crimson before the late offensive eruption.“Our offense salvaged us today with long balls,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “We’ve got a lot of confidence and, while we sometimes haven’t finished [games] off, we have had a good approach...
What’s even better is that now you can prevent yourself from ever sending late night e-mails. By activating “mail goggles” gmail will put you through a short math quiz to see if you are really in a state to send e-mail (note: automatically activates late night on weekends). This is the GREATEST invention since refrigerator locks...
...While the Radcliffe Union of Students is a sex-positive organization partially devoted to disseminating information about female sexuality, we find it troubling that the campus climate of late seems to include normalization of female objectification. Because objectification of potential sex partners (often women) is often a prerequisite for sexual violence, imagery and phrasing that objectify women contribute to a culture in which rape and other forms of sexual assault are accepted. In addition, people who have already experienced sexual violence may be triggered or particularly disturbed by thoughtless, insensitive publicity materials...