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...Humanities Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will attempt to identify black soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War. The project is jointly funded by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, of which Gates is the director, and the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR...
...daughter of France's legendary comic actress Josiane Balasko is lighting up the silver screen herself these days. In two breakout roles last year, she wowed the critics. One of them, her bittersweet performance in Look at Me, earned a nomination for Most Promising Actress at the César awards, France's version of the Oscars. Now, in the just-opened film Once Upon a Time in the Oued, she's winning plaudits for her role as a headstrong young woman who wins the hero's heart and makes his unlikely dream come true. Yet for an actress keen...
Academics from Turkey, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Iraq are arriving at Harvard this week to join two visiting fellows as a part of the Scholars at Risk (SAR) Program, a program that allows scholars facing persecution in their home countries to conduct research at universities in safety. The SAR fellowship network, which began in 2000 at New York University, first placed scholars at Harvard in 2001. Under the direction of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, the Harvard program has thus far invited 10 scholars to Cambridge. This year, the program will fund an unprecedented...
...Signoret. The film is Jean De Florette, based on the story by Marcel Pagnol and completed on location in southern France three months after Signoret's death in September. Montand, 64, agreed to do the part only after donning the mustache of his character, the mean-spirited neighbor, César Soubeyran. "All of a sudden I saw myself aged ten or 15 years and instead of trying to hold back time I was pushing it ahead." Montand also savored the interplay with Co-Star Gérard Depardieu, "one of the best actors in the world," and the delights...
...film L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment). The Barcelona-set tale of a group of European exchange students learning more about life from one another than from their course work was a global hit, thanks, in part, to De France's performance. It earned her a César (France's Academy Award) as best new actress. In the same year, she also showed she had a deft comic touch in the French romcoms Irène, the story of a lonely, uptight woman's search for love, and A + Pollux, as the elusive love interest of a man determined...