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...scum," as France's Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy did? That should be political suicide, but Sarkozy got away with it. As a French citizen of South Asian origin, I would say that callousness represents the state of affairs in mainstream French society. Unlike the Anglo-Saxons, who have a penchant for politeness and political correctness, the French have no inhibitions about crudely stating their reaction to events. The country needs to get rid of its outmoded approach to race, immigration and integration. Gautham Venkata-Chalam Ottawa It is an illusion to believe the generous social-welfare benefits France offers...
Hugh Sidey loved ceremony but hated pretension. He had excellent perspective, but also had an eye for the telling detail: Lyndon Johnson's hydra-headed shower, George H.W. Bush's penchant for e-mailing racy jokes to friends, Richard Nixon's love of classical music. He came to Washington in 1957 to cover the second Administration of Dwight Eisenhower for LIFE, switched to TIME to cover J.F.K. and reported on every President since then. He went to Dallas with J.F.K., to China with Nixon, to Moscow's Red Square with Ronald Reagan. Yet he returned as often as he could...
...Your cover story "Mirror, Mirror ..." described how Asian men are spending more time and money on their looks [Oct. 31]. The modern male's penchant for body and facial makeup would put to shame Snow White's wicked stepmother, who was always consulting her magic mirror to check on who was the fairest of them all. Your report said many Asian girls like boys to be more stylish. I say this is the beginning of a new era when women want to be more in control, making men their eventual subjects. Since the emancipation of women, men and women have...
Chief among those departures was center Jan Fikiel, who, despite his penchant for setting up outside the arc on the baseline and hurling threes, stood a full two and three inches taller than Danley and Zoller, respectively. That height is important in a league that boasts 6’10 Yale center Dominick Martin and 7’0 Harvard center Brian Cusworth. The Quakers currently have no true centers, or any player above 6’8 on their roster, making those matchups with the Crimson and the Bulldogs potentially tenuous...
...trekked to Paris immediately after graduation to study conducting with Charles Bruck. He returned to the U.S. for graduate school and a 12-year stint leading the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minneapolis, the nation’s only full-time professional chamber orchestra. The conductor’s penchant for continent-hopping never faded. In 2000, Wolff moved his family to London and became a denizen of the international terminal; for five years, Wolff commuted from England to Germany to serve as Chief Conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. The classical music tradition is imprinted so deeply in European...