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...growth - 5% on average - during Wade's first term, most people interviewed in the streets say they have yet to feel the trickle-down benefits. Unemployment among young men remains stubbornly high at over 50%, with many complaining that Wade's signature big infrastructure projects - his so-called grands travaux include a new airport and a four-lane super-highway - don't fill bellies once their construction is finished. "I see the roads, I see the bridges, but I cannot eat them," says Malik Dioum, 25, who works part-time in a downtown Internet...
...given to a French student to study at Harvard, has been awarded to Pierre Brodin, who is at present teaching at the Lycee Clemenceau at Nantes. The Stillman Scholarship, also awarded to a French student, will be held by Henri Supper, a graduate of the Ecole Speciale des Travaux of Paris, for study in the Harvard Engineering School. The Jay Backus Woodworth Fellowship in Geology, given in honor of the late Professor Woodworth by his students, has been awarded to Howard A. Powers, of Brookings, South Dakota. The James Edward Ditson Fund, providing for a travelling fellowship in Music...
Conservative Republican and Royalist students combined to prevent Prof. Georges Scelle, Socialist, member of the Ministere des Travaux Publics, from delivering a lecture on international law in the Paris Law School...
...effet, nous n'ignorons pas qu'a tous interessants travaux une detente est parfois necessaire aussi, croyez bien, que je suis heureux que mon entree a Harvard vous l'ait procuree...
...rappellent plusieurs siecles de traditions que je suis sur vous chercherez a perpetuer. C'est meme a cela qu'en terminant je vous inviteral tout particulierement-n'oubliez jamais que vous appartenez a Harvard-sachez lui conserver le bon renom que vos amis lui ont acquis-prouvez enfin parvos travaux, et meme dans vos jeux, que vous la voulez toujours en tres bonne place parmi les grand universites. Restez surtout toujours jeunes, soyez inventifs comme vous l'ayez ete ce soir, et j'ai l'absolue conviction que l'architecture, elle aussi, y trouvera son compte...
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