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...finishers will qualify for the second round on May 6, where a few polls even suggest that Bayrou could win. Since the French Revolution, left and right have been locked in a power struggle. Now both are battling to head off a threat from a largely forgotten realm of French politics: the center...
...literature as a writer’s journey. If literature is truly an individual project, how can we label some literary purposes inappropriate? If an individual feels that her life has a particular political or ideological purpose, how can we exclude her writer’s journey from the realm of “literature”? Moreover, given that all individuals are raised in a particular socio-political and ideological climate and have unique relationships with that background, literature will always be influenced by these factors and therefore is necessarily ideological.Even Gao’s “rejection...
...Planted firmly in the realm of cartoons / video games / comic books to which 90% of American movies aspire, the Miller graphic novel (with coloring by Lynn Varley) is a faithful, if jizzed-up, version of the 479 B.C. battle of Thermopylae. The action and much of the dialogue are taken from Herodotus' near-contemporary history...
...rapidly becoming the starting points for experiences of reality that allow orientation in a world that is both falling apart and coming together"). Thames & Hudson publishes the Hip Hotels series, an anthology of vacuity, as well as the StyleCity collection of travel guides. To enter the latter's realm-or, for that matter, the domain of the Luxe City Guides or the Wallpaper City Guides-is to land in a parallel universe of depressingly uniform bars and boutiques. You assume you are experiencing a city at its hedonistic, air-kissing optimum; in fact, you are barely experiencing the city...
...meant to cover everything not provided by Harvard. This includes items from toothpaste and soap to clothing and textbooks. To determine the size of the stipend, Financial Aid Office uses cost estimates derived from sample budgets and student surveys.The textbook portion of that estimate is in the realm of $1, 250 per year (used books are about $300 less), leaving a student on financial aid the modest sum of around $50 per week for all of their other personal expenses. But, of course, there lies the nearly irresistible temptation within this budgeting scheme to compromise on books—after...