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...Bayrou has a potent vote utile argument of his own: Polls regularly show that he would have a better chance than Royal would have of beating Sarkozy in the head-to-head second round on May 6. His appeal has prompted several former Socialist ministers to break rank and urge their party to promise to govern in coalition with the centrists, prompting outrage from party leaders. But if Royal does make it into the second round, their tune could quickly change...
...Infante was an ornament of Mexico's Golden Age (La é poca de Oro del Cine Mejicano), a two-decade stretch of potent moviemaking. While the U.S. industry was importing Latin Americans like Ricardo Montalban, Carmen Miranda, José Iturbi and Fernando Lamas, Mexican beauty Dolores del Rio left Hollywood and returned home to join such new stars as Cantinflas, Pedro Armend?riz, Mar?a Félix and Infante's friendly rival in the singing hunk sweepstakes, Jorge Negrete. Emilio "El Indio" Fern?ndez was directing movies that won international prizes, like the Cannes Palme d'Or. A renegade from Franco...
From Shakespeare to Swaziland, from potpourri to potent potables, one Harvard freshman will have to know it all. Ashley M. Grand ’10 is set to appear as one of 15 contestants in the “Jeopardy!” College Championship, vying for a $100,000 top prize, Sony Pictures Television announced Wednesday. Grand, who will head to the University of Southern California to compete on April 21 and 22, said her choice to audition for the show last year was a spur-of-the-moment decision. “I was in Chicago...
...political process take root. While the Guard deployment announced Monday is not part of the surge, by the time those soldiers board airplanes bound for Iraq it should be apparent whether or not the surge is working. Older and a more integral part of their local communities, these politically potent soldiers are not going to be pleased if it appears they are being thrown into a losing battle...
...also misplaced. Critics’ primary objections to activity-based learning stem from the particular vision outlined in the Task Force’s report—a vision that does not reflect the best that activity-based learning has to offer. Well-developed activity-based courses can create potent synergies between real-world experiences and academic exploration, an alchemy that need not intrude on students’ other extracurricular commitments. Such classes stand to significantly enrich undergraduates’ learning experiences, and deserve serious consideration from Harvard’s students and faculty members...