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...only get married once (well, maybe a few times) so you might as well make it fun. Traditionalists may still prefer to get hitched in a house of worship (and we're O.K. with that), but there's no excuse for lining up at a dreary register office when expressive, stylish, even outlandish options abound. Here are a few of our favorite wedding venues...
...France still struggles to accept the regime of torture implemented by its soldiers in Algeria in a vain attempt to suppress the nationalist rebellion in the late 1950s. The French political class has been in denial for decades; they'd prefer to pretend it didn't happen. Not so the soldiers. The general in charge of counterinsurgency in Algiers, Paul Aussaresses, recently stirred the pot in a memoir in which he explained that torture was essential to achieving France's goals in Algeria. You sent me to suppress the rebellion, he argued. This was the only...
Under the assumption that these four would prefer to be taking advantage of the pristine weather outside, the voice recorder is shut off to bring an axe down on the discussion. Somebody casually asks for the e-mail address of an on-campus songwriting mentor. Someone else makes an off-hand comment on his technique. And suddenly, the conversation has started up again in full force...
...soon as I could. The instructor said I should come back when the director of the program was there—maybe he could show me a better way. But that will not happen. A more shameless magazine writer would plumb this experience to its metaphoric depths, but I prefer to move on. There are other lessons to discuss apart from knowing one’s limits or coping with disappointment or various notions of failure that may not fit into the Harvard paradigm. But the longer I write about this the more likely it is that...
Though Morani and Jaeger said they are trying to negotiate policies that will deter or cushion layoffs, some HUCTW members said they would prefer that the union instead negotiate for the ultimate work security: a no-layoffs clause...