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Today, this is a dream: an expensive and far-fetched twinkle in the eye of the Pike’s highest don. For such a dream, devoting $10,000 for an exploratory study must have seemed cheap to Amorello. The pharaohs had their pyramids; Mitterand, his Chunnel. Amorello might have his magnetically-levitated monorail. As chair, Amorello took over the Big Dig in February 2002, and for nearly two years the rest of the transportation world have looked on with a combination of envy and schadenfreude. But a man of Amorello’s imagination is no more satisfied with...
...lecture, sponsored by the Department of African-American Studies, focuses on Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known, a book of poems written while the author was fleeing for his life. His latest effort meditates on his public and private lives, including a work in memory of Francois Mitterand and others dedicated to writers Josef Brodsky and Chinua Achebe. Monday, April 21 at 4 p.m. Free. Lower Level Auditorium at the Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland...
...those years I followed the German press fairly regularly. All I ever learned about his family--already more than I cared to--was that he had two sons. The lack of supply of such news is at least partly due to a lack of demand. French President Francois Mitterand was known to have been sexually enterprising, but when Paris Match disclosed that he had a daughter from one of his mistresses, the magazine's sales plunged...
PARIS: Former French President Francois Mitterand succumbed to prostate cancer Monday. He served longer (14 years) as France's president than anyone since Napoleon III, leaving behind "a mixed legacy that is bound to fascinate and confound historians for decades to come," says Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton. Mitterand became president in 1981 as a socialist, but two years after sweeping nationalizations and other leftist policies had created runaway inflation, a spiraling trade deficit and a sagging franc, he abruptly changed course and put the country on a solidly capitalistic course. For that, critics called him a cynical, power-thirsty...
...Mitterand eventually makes a visit to Sarajevo, temporarily bouying Bosnian spirits, but ultimately leaving them disappointed and less hopeful than before. An edited sequence of interviews with Mitterand and Izetbegovic plays up the dissimulation inherent in Western policy in Bosnia. But the politics are personal, limited to these two men and the context remains narrow...