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Such is the razzle-dazzle of French President Nicolas Sarkozy that he is able to turn a speech to business leaders on such staid topics as labor contracts, taxation, inflation and purchasing power into some truly captivating theatrics. During a nearly 45-minute address billed as the blueprint of the...
The first was that the movie seemed to inhabit a genre, the mystery, that promises a solution. Antonioni wasn't sporting. He said that real life isn't an Agatha Christie novel. Stories end; life goes on. "I can feel the weariness of certain mechanisms that are resorted to in...
The generation of World War II is mostly gone. The generation that directly heard tell of World War II from its parents is moving on. We have exhausted, so to speak, the moral capital of that war. Now we face challenges almost as daunting as those confronting the nation when...
When I was 14, I fell in love. This was not the first time, nor would it be the last. In fact, it wasn’t even the first time that week I had fallen in love. (Earlier things I’d fallen in love with included Jimmy...
"Modernity and Its Discontents": Christopher B. Lacaria ’09 is a history concentrator in Mather House and the publisher of the Harvard Salient. He will provide a critical look at the absurdities and inanities of the post-modern academy here at Harvard in his column, which will run...