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...convinced stage hands to walk out. The scene verged on the surreal as actors collected their awards without music, backdrops, professional lighting or even microphones. All over France, unemployment has taken center stage. The spat over unemployment compensation in performing arts threatens to disrupt the Cannes film festival in mid-May. And two weeks ago, a Marseilles court overturned a 2002 reform that slashed jobless benefits from 30 to 23 months. The judges ruled that the move breached the contract workers entered into when they got their...
After spending almost 30 years as editor of Harvard Magazine, Bethell became an authority on Harvard history. In the mid-nineties, he began work on his first book, Harvard Observed: An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century...
...homophobia is still a massive problem on both sides of Johnston Gate, and this is precisely why yesterday’s anti-homophobia speak-out has such extreme importance. For many of us, it brings visibility to an oppression that we assume was handily solved somewhere in the mid-1990s...
...more or less esteemed Americans value for philosophical purposes. The list of topics is short. When one has named, "for God, for Country, and for Yale" there is little to add to this greatest of anti-climaxes, except perhaps "for virtue". Baccalaureat speakers are at their best in linking mid-Victorian triteness with modern Babbitry, in combining Puritanical platitudes with the poverty of provincialism...
Besides probing the PDB, the commission will be looking at the current status of domestic intelligence gathering. The key question: Can the FBI fix itself? First up for testimony will be such top officials as Louis Freeh, who led the bureau for nearly eight years, until mid-2001, as well as former Attorney General Janet Reno and figures like Tom Pickard, acting FBI director in the summer of 2001, when U.S. intelligence reported a spike in the threat level. FBI officials tell TIME that Pickard will deny charges that the bureau ignored the warnings and that he will testify that...