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...magazines carry serious book reviews, and the Nov. 5 announcement of the Prix Goncourt - one of more than 900 French literary prizes - was front-page news across the country. (It went to Gilles Leroy's novel Alabama Song.) Every French town of any size has its annual opera or theater festival, nearly every church its weekend organ or chamber-music recital...
...Their government spends 1.5% of GDP supporting a wide array of cultural and recreational activities (vs. only 0.7% for Germany, 0.5% for the U.K. and 0.3% for the U.S.). The Culture Ministry, with its 11,200 employees, lavishes money on such "high-culture" mainstays as museums, opera houses and theater festivals. But the ministry also appointed a Minister for Rock 'n' Roll in the 1980s to help France compete against the Anglo-Saxons (unsuccessfully). Likewise, parliament in 2005 voted to designate foie gras as a protection-worthy part of the nation's cultural heritage...
...Israelis have stuff to steal and the Arabs don't. But theft is also a way of striking back at Israelis. "When I walk through their streets, I feel jealousy. The Israelis have everything for their children and we have nothing for ours," says Ahmed Abu Saloum, a theater director. Recently his teenage son was stopped by undercover police and ordered to remove his hat. Saloum says his son replied, "'Why? It's a democratic country.'" Then, alleges the director, "the police took him away and beat him. His body was so bruised, he looked like a tomato...
...From Marshall to Rubin (June 06, 2001) When former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin '60 steps to the podium in Tercentenary Theater tomorrow to deliver the keynote address, he will be only the latest in a long line of influential Harvard Commencement speakers...
From Marshall to Rubin (June 06, 2001) When former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin '60 steps to the podium in Tercentenary Theater tomorrow to deliver the keynote address, he will be only the latest in a long line of influential Harvard Commencement speakers...