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James B. Danner ’12 came early in the evening wearing suede lederhosen, a traditional mountain jacket, and a pair of mountaineering boots called bergschuhe...
...France expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. Even the personal aspect of the relationship seems to be improving. In France, Pascale Joannin, general manager of the Robert Schumann Foundation, a think tank, says that while "Merkel is more Francophile than Sarkozy is Germanophile," the pair "have grown used to one another." Joannin expects swift action to coordinate the two nations' positions at the December conference on climate change in Copenhagen, and on fixing the top jobs at the new European Commission. Even before the election, the two nations worked together to push for a crackdown...
...glasses. They're not quite the flimsy red-and-blue-cellophane getups that they used to be, but the Sony and Panasonic models still require you to wear a pair of shades to observe the effect. And therein lies the rub. How can TV manufacturers convince you that seeing shows in 3-D is worth the annoyance of having to don a pair of specs? (See the top 10 movie gimmicks...
...falters is in its failure to adequately deal with its own extra-textual subtext.Wild animals are a repeated motif throughout the novel. A tiger that may or may not actually be some sort of digging machine rampages through the city, destroying whole buildings and causing general inconvenience. A pair of bald eagles seem to hunt Abneg, and at one point, a whale makes its way up the East River nearly to Hell’s Gate before dying.This motif seems to speak in general to the control or lack thereof wielded by the invisible powers-that-be behind most...
...Eventually Lambertye makes his first overt move by holding Patricia's hand during a train ride back from a 1984 D-Day anniversary ceremony in Normandy. Similar expressions of hand endearment follow, before the pair open the seriously carnal chapter of their affair in a presidential château in Rambouillet - where Giscard himself used to hold hunting expeditions in the surrounding woods...