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Four years ago, when Frederic Jousset and Olivier Duha began trying to persuade European companies to move some of their customer-service operations abroad, they hit a wall of skepticism. It was too risky to move to out-of-the way places like Morocco and Romania, they were told. "It was like evangelizing," recalls Jousset, 34, a former marketing manager at cosmetics firm L'Oréal. But the two men persevered, and today their outsourcing company, Webhelp, is booming. Clients include Tiscali, the Italian Internet service provider, and TF1, France's leading TV station. In June, Webhelp opened...
...successful graphic novel "Blankets," Thompson's introductory insistence that "Carnet" is not his "next book," tries to disarm any critics, but he needn't have worried. Seemingly unedited, "Carnet" chronicles, in the form of an engrossing diary sketchbook, Thompson's European author tour, with a side trip to Morocco, during the spring of 2004. With all of its pages drawn from life, here at last we have one continuous journey, rich with detail of place and characters, told with humor, pathos and insight...
...page from the Morocco section of Craig Thompson's "Carnet de Voyage...
...last year in a 43-40 overtime victory over Princeton on Oct. 27 that Murphy admitted that he might have elected to go for it on a fourth down play in overtime rather than have either Adam Kingston ’04 or then-sophomore Jim Morocco attempt a game-tying field goal from the four-yard line...
...losers. But the jubilant performances of many of these athletes reminded us that the Olympics draw their greatest glory from the dignity of competing and finishing?even if it's in last place. Naturally, the Games' most exceptional winners will remain etched in our minds. Take Hicham El Guerrouj, Morocco's rendition of a Giacometti stick figure, who stayed ahead of Kenya's Bernard Lagat seemingly by dint of facial contortion alone to capture a long-elusive Olympic win in the 1,500-m race. Or Birgit Fischer, Germany's 42-year-old kayaker who won her eighth gold...