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...daughter of Jane Birkin, the gamine English model and actress, and Serge Gainsbourg, France's beloved singer-songwriter. When Serge died in 1991, the nation went into mourning and President François Mitterrand lauded him as "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire." Carrying such celebrated DNA can be a daunting task. "With acting I never have to reference my father," Gainsbourg says. "With music I want to refer to him, but I want to find my own path, too." (See TIME's fond farewells...
...YORK—On the eve of arguably the most important game in Harvard men’s basketball history, Crimson coach Tommy Amaker expected his players to stay focused on the task at hand...
...technocratic, scholarly progressivism of the present age. He was an active, animated federal regulator concerned with protecting the social fabric and the welfare of the ordinary American. He demanded sacrifice and hard work from his supporters and fair play from his opponents. Like Obama, Roosevelt was confronted with the task of actively restoring government’s credibility in an age of dramatic economic inequality and misconduct. Although Teddy didn’t face massive unemployment as Obama faces today, he did have to confront an economic elite disconnected from the public interest. To counter these foes...
...from the start; he's not mismatched with Beth in class or temperament. In fact, he's an even more fabulous specimen than she is: tall, handsome, genial, with sensational teeth and a good job as an ESPN reporter. And he instantly loves her. It is the movie's task to erect obstacles that will keep them apart until the last reel. (See this weekend's critics' picks...
Despite a retooled strategy that links a U.S. troop surge to efforts to build the Afghans' capacity to govern and protect themselves, Western optimism over Afghanistan's prospects has continued to ebb. So, a key task of the Jan. 28 conference convened in London by Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and co-hosted by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was to foster confidence that a positive outcome could be achieved sooner rather than later. "Today's conference represents a decisive step towards greater Afghan leadership to secure, stabilize and develop Afghanistan," declared...