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...dining hall staff: Though the food at Harvard may not be as good (UCLA served different food in each of its dining halls, had a wood-brick oven to bake pizza in, and a dessert selection that would challenge any Parisian bakery), I am thankful for those who cook and serve our meals each day. I think the only other people who have ever cared so much about making me happy were my parents, and they probably felt obligated to because I’m related by blood...
...there is a very descriptive account of the man’s life. Rousseau was born in 1712 when Geneva—now Switzerland’s second-largest city—was still a stand-alone republic. After an eventful but unpromising early life, he gravitated toward the Parisian philosophe culture and wrote a string of highly celebrated essays and books staking out novel positions on education, politics, society, religion and the Enlightenment itself. He quickly became estranged from many former friends, and soon after persecuted by the authorities. After his 1762 critique of religion...
...have found themselves reassuring worried relatives back home. The reason, many said, was that they live and study in central Paris, which was left largely untouched by three weeks of violent confrontations between rioters and police. “I haven’t seen major panic in the Parisian streets, maybe because I live rather far away from where the disturbances that are taking place.” said Glenda Aldana ’07, who is spending the fall semester studying in the French capital. “Talking to other Parisians, I’ve also noticed...
...former ministers MICHEL ROUSSIN, 66, MICHEL GIRAUD, 76, and GUY DRUT, 54, who is also a member of the International Olympic Committee; in Paris. Punishments ranged from fines to suspended jail sentences for involvement in a public-works scam that took kickbacks worth more than $80 million to renovate Parisian schools. Several of the defendants were allies of President Jacques Chirac, who was mayor of Paris at the time; he was protected from giving evidence by presidential immunity...
...models appeared on the losing side in topical battle pictures. Prints like Lts Coghill and Melville Saving the Colours, Zulu War, 1879 (1882), after Adolphe Alphonse de Neuville, may look stagey to us, but even back then not everyone found them convincing. A critic commented: "[We see] the ordinary Parisian negro-models, reproduced in more or less warlike attitudes." Many painters became interested in their models' own stories. A section called "Into and Out of Africa" reveals how travelers and scientists, recording physical types and costumes, also observed the humanity of their subjects. David Wilkie's Negro Nurse with White...