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Piaf's life story is as familiar to the French as her catalog of hits. And like any good tale, it's often told with much poetic license. The standard version goes something like this: born on a Paris sidewalk, Piaf was raised in her grandmother's brothel in Normandy before her acrobat father took her back to her birthplace. After cabaret owner Louis Leplée discovered her singing in the street, Piaf was soon topping the bill in the city's most exalted venues and conquering America. Oh, and don't forget the miracle that cured her childhood...
After a wintry mix of snow, slush and rain froze over on the night of Valentine’s Day, Harvard students faced the dangerous challenge of walking to and from class on roads and sidewalks covered in ice. Harvard’s Facilities Maintenance Organization (FMO) was prepared for the dangers the weather would bring—stockpiling salt, sand, and ice-melt, as well as activating all on-hand personnel and hiring emergency contract workers from outside its ranks. According to Yard Operations Associate Director of Residential Operations Zachary M. Gingo ’98, 65 people worked...
...pain, but that's the law, and the bosses are applying it," says a 34 year-old supermarket employee named Christophe who declined to give his last name as he paced the sidewalk for his smoke. Before the ban, Christophe says he and fellow inhalers were allowed to smoke in the large storage room in the central-Paris supermarket. "Now we can't and we're out here," he says, shrugging between drags. "That's life...
...Given bird flu fears and pure aesthetics, no one wants to see flocks of shiny black birds stiff on the sidewalk. But weakened birds will continue to die when temperatures dip and, if they land on a busy downtown boulevard, even in a city like Austin where bird lovers abound, they will spark yet another debate in the war on grackles that is being waged across the country and the methods being used to curb the grackle population. In order to discourage roosting, city administrators in Tempe, Ariz., tried lathering their downtown trees with a concord grape coating that made...
Friday, Jan. 19. The day you were murdered. I stare at the TV, at your tall, thin body lying dead on the sidewalk of a busy street in Istanbul . You are in front of your office, the office of the Turkish-Armenian weekly you worked so hard to launch and sustain. I cannot take my eyes off the soles of your shoes. Worn out and tired, your shoes are a mute response to all those ultranationalists who accused you of being in the pay of the Armenian diaspora to disrupt the status quo in Turkey...