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...debate on integration, since it is located in a suburb north of Paris that takes in around 10% of the roughly 140,000 immigrants to France each year. Yet the school has largely achieved the goal, so elusive for France as a whole, of creating harmony from diversity. "Saint-Denis may be the biggest melting pot in the world today, and we reflect that diversity of ethnicities and faith among our students and teachers," says school director Gérard Héloir. He says that the school is not out to create an institutional form of multiculturalism, but simply...
...opera by bringing his lyrical, high-intensity works to mass audiences over the objections of critics who claimed his popular masterpieces were not sufficiently intellectual; in Monaco. Menotti, creator of the first opera written for radio, won the Pulitzer Prize for two of his operas, The Consul and The Saint of Bleecker Street. But he was best known for the 45-min. Amahl and the Night Visitors, a Christmas opera he wrote for TV. He continued his efforts to democratize the art in 1958 by founding Italy's influential Spoleto Festival (and later its sister festival in Charleston, S.C.), which...
...dead earlier.About ten minutes later, Clarkson broke the deadlock when Matt Beca netted the go-ahead goal with 1:24 left.The Crimson pulled Richter in the closing minute to no avail, as Clarkson’s Shea Guthrie added an empty-netter to make the final score 4-2. SAINT LAWRENCE 4, HARVARD 3Through 57 minutes of Friday night’s game against the No. 17 St. Lawrence Saints (14-10-2, 10-3-1), Harvard had successfully killed 4-of-4 penalties against the ECAC division leaders. The Crimson lost 4-3 when the team proved unable...
...Abb? Pierre's death comes just weeks after activists for the homeless erected scores of tents along Paris's Canal Saint Martin to call attention to their plight. Chirac earlier this month proposed that the "right to lodging" be inscribed in the French constitution, a measure that Abb? Pierre had long advocated. Now the government has proposed that the enabling legislation be named the "law of Abb? Pierre." Thus conceived, it is sure to sail through parliament on January 30, a concrete legacy to a life that transfigured France...
...freelancers. There is still an air of improvisation on the set and frequently on the screen, which features more people talking about the news than it does innovative news-gathering. On the other hand, Gosset has kept his anchor spot for the channel's main talk show, and Saint-Paul, his replacement, insists he's still pushing for journalistic improvements. "The criticism of the birth will soon be forgotten," says Saint-Paul. "Our progenitor was Chirac, but that's not a label that will stick to us forever...