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...rather admire them. In a time of globalization, wherever I go I see the same shops, the same food chains and the same clothing, and yet the French want to maintain their distinctiveness. They don't want to be like everyone else, and for that maybe we should be thankful. France is itself, quite simply and stubbornly, even though McDonald's and office lunches have made some inroads. In the end, the resistance will lose this battle. Maybe not this time, but eventually the inexorable tide of globalization will wash over France and make it more and more like everywhere...
...senior gift is not about the amount of money raised, but to unite the senior class and to educate them for when they become alums,” said Lauren Rosensweig of the Harvard College Fund. “It is a way to say ‘thank you.’” In view of Harvard’s $25.9 billion endowment, such gifts are relatively small, raising between $30,000 and $50,000 each year. “We don’t have incomes as students, so a gift is a sign of gratitude...
...they have declined to say how much) that will allow the concert to happen in the first place. In the past, reliance on ticket sales (along with UC funding) has led to small turnouts, eliminating any hope of profitability and reducing the community-building value of the event. We thank the College and the President’s office for backing up their rhetoric about improving undergraduate life by putting up enough money to make this concert free. In particular, University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...
...busted pickup. It is a little after 7 a.m. and the mayor is standing in a grassy median, ignoring fumes from three lanes of rush-hour traffic to glad-hand voters in hopes of getting reelected in the city that Hurricane Katrina battered and left for dead. "Thank you, baby, need your help!" Nagin says, reaching into a car to shake hands. An African-American man in dreadlocks hops out of his car to have his picture taken with the mayor in the middle of the street. "When hard-core 'hood brothers do that, sumpin? is up," says the mayor...
Nelson’s call “was an offer that not a lot of people would have gotten, so we just took the risk,” Tunes says. “Thank God it came out well...