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...another matter. In a September poll of 1,310 Americans for Le Figaro magazine, only 20% considered culture to be a domain in which France excels, far behind cuisine. Domestic expectations are low as well. Many French believe the country and its culture have been in decline since - pick a date: 1940 and the humiliating German occupation; 1954, the start of the divisive Algerian conflict; or 1968, the revolutionary year which conservatives like Sarkozy say brought France under the sway of a new, more casual generation that has undermined standards of education and deportment...
...through the French intelligentsia last summer by calling for the "democratization" of culture. Many took this to mean that cultural policy should be based on market forces, not on professional judgments about quality. With more important adversaries to confront - notably the pampered civil-service unions - Sarkozy is unlikely to pick a fight over cultural subsidies, which remain vastly popular...
...Sana Arjumand, also in the Aicon show. Her glassy-eyed women play with the props of Pakistani nationalism - founding father Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and the crescent and star of the flag. In I am Flexible. Are You?, a spaced-out woman, dangling like a slack marionette, bends down to pick up a crescent, in a pose of submission, both sexual and political...
...another and suddenly become pragmatic. Amazingly, that's happening right now on global warming. Just as the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns of "abrupt and irreversible" damage if we don't take immediate action, a serious piece of climate legislation is beginning to pick up speed in the U.S. Senate...
...tied the game, but we couldn’t get over the hump.”The Crimson found itself in a 10-point hole at the half due to inconsistent play and its lack of interior size. That allowed Holy Cross to stop drives to the basket and pick up easy points around the rim. Harvard’s inbounding defense was also lacking, after the Crusaders picked up easy points with open shots on crisp passes after stopped play.“We dug ourselves a hole,” coach Tommy Amaker said...