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...anonymous office patiently pushing the modernization envelope. The changes those technocrats can institute are limited, less sweeping in scope and slower to take effect than grandiose political programs, but they're often more effective. They underline the truth that France is a prosperous nation whose public services are often superb and whose private companies are frequently world-beaters. And they undermine the international cliché - a cliché the French themselves like to propagate - that France is impossible to change. Bruno Parent is one of the change agents. He's a top civil servant at the Finance Ministry and played...
...Maxim Gorky's claustrophobic epic. The Criterion edition offers a bonus: Jean Renoir's '36 version, with Jean Gabin in the role of the charismatic thief played in the Kurosawa film by Toshiro Mifune. It's a chance to see two movie masters stamp their genius on a superb drama...
...Walsh....Speaking of Yale relief work, the Bulldogs bullpen continues to hang tough: of their four most commonly used relievers, Fealey’s 2.78 ERA actually stands as the worst mark. Adam Barrick (0.00 ERA), closer Brett Rosenthal (1.32), and John Henry Davis (2.12) are putting together superb years in relief....Award-winning author and Boston sportswriter Dan Shaughnessy was on hand to enjoy bits and pieces of the Crimson’s Saturday sweep. He once again found himself making the short walk over from Soldiers Field, where his daughter, junior Sarah Shaughnessy, was taking on Princeton with...
...professionals” even if they don’t violate the compensation technicalities. If they train hard to become skilled, they are dismissed as “pros.” Being a good athlete is fine, but there is something wrong with becoming a very good athlete. Superb Harvard athletes are suspected of not being what former Princeton president William G. Bowen calls “regular students” in “Reclaiming the Game,” his indictment of intercollegiate athletics at selective colleges. It is another piece of our aristocratic athletic heritage...
...students and as a positive example to the literally thousands of institutions worldwide that look to Harvard as a model of academic excellence, Harvard must make sure that everyone who receives course credit from it does so only after having been immersed to at least some degree in the superb academic environment that lies at the core of our great and noble university. MARC S. CALLIS April...