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François Bayrou insists he has nothing to prove. His life story suggests otherwise. The leader of the centrist Union for French Democracy (UDF) and for many years a minor presence in the rarefied world of French politics, Bayrou has emerged as a serious contender for the country's presidency. He has done so in spite of his homespun background. A smallholder's son from the Pyrenees, saddled with a stutter as a kid, he never rounded off his résumé at one of France's prestigious grandes écoles as many politicians...
...touted the notion of "hyperreality"--the unreal experiencing of events not through one's senses but through the media. His theories drew a cultlike fan base, which included the creators of The Matrix films, but he was best known for sparking furors with his provocative, if not entirely serious, commentary--most famously his 1991 remark that the much covered first Gulf War "did not take place...
...Laughs.] Head of State is a comedy. It has nothing to do with Barack Obama. Mr. Obama is pretty serious and should be taken seriously. You know, I like him. I like Gore. Hillary too--she's O.K. She can get a job in the Cabinet...
...space without constraint or definition. “I don’t like when images are framed. I like the dialectic of transience and framing.” And like her work, artist, scholar, and writer Boym defies simple classification. “I think that being a serious scholar and being an artist are not opposed,” she says. “I’m not trying to be a professional artist. I like the idea of working against the division of labor, especially in Barthes’s definition—that what...
...further dialogue and community action. A companion book is available for purchase, and the entire series will be offered on DVD. Addiction might not be a weighty word in Harvard facebook groups dedicated to various trivial obsessions, but to the subjects of this documentary, it’s a serious disease—though not an incurable one. As Jimi said at the Boston premiere, “They’re starting to put the word out there: recovery is possible.” —Staff writer Lindsay A. Maizel can be reached at lmaizel@fas.harvard.edu...