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...uncle in Bordeaux and worked as a cabin boy on transatlantic steamers before trying his hand at acting and painting. He retained his bohemian affection for the working man, and - much like French foes of globalization today - worried about the petty tradesmen and merchants threatened by modernization and the rise of big Paris department stores. Thus, the Bibliothèque Nationale show includes affectionate portraits of herb sellers, junk dealers and wine merchants, as well as shots of the horse-drawn buses and cabriolets that were vanishing as the automotive age dawned...
...never worked with us. He just used the office as a tool for his campaign." Indeed, now that the campaign is over, Sarkozy may well prove as hard-edged and polarizing as ever. If he channels even half the abrasive, risk-taking energy he expended on his rise to the top, France will be in for a bracing five years...
...decision, the Supreme Court ruled that students don't "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech ... at the schoolhouse gate" as long as they don't cause "substantial disruption" at school. Courts gave students even more rights over the next decade, but the rise of drugs and alcohol on campus made judges increasingly sympathetic to schools. In the '80s, the Supreme Court cut back the rights granted in Tinker, telling schools they could limit student speech that was "vulgar and offensive" or "sponsored" by the school in, for example, a student newspaper...
Gross used the same wording in his January 2006 cover letter to Faculty on the same issue, writing that both the rise in the mean grade and grade compression are are concerns “best addressed through ongoing discussion at the departmental level...
...customer in the nuclear black market, a customer that has built an equivalent if not even larger network than A.Q. Khan's," IISS proliferation specialist Mark Fitzpatrick told a gathering of reporters and proliferation experts in Washington Tuesday. The IISS study, Nuclear Black markets: Pakistan, A.Q. Khan and the Rise of Proliferation Networks, concludes that despite Khan having been placed under house arrest by the Pakistan government in 2004, elements of his supply network, which spanned three continents, remain active and dangerous...