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After their massive protests had effectively killed France's controversial youth employment law and all but quashed Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's presidential hopes, you might think the country's students would be simply content to celebrate their triumph. But while unions and some student groups said President Jacques Chirac's disavowal of the law was enough reason for them to end repeated demonstrations, more hard-core university and political groups pledged to continue staging marches and protests until the wider package of measures the now-defunct law was part of are repealed, including a similar, nine-month...
Although the title of “Knock: or the Triumph of Medicine” may imply an endorsement of healthcare, this Loeb Mainstage show is anything but. In its portrayal of a sinister doctor who spreads disease instead of curing it, “Knock” explores the dark underbelly of modern medicine, suggesting that instead of being “scared to death,” the saying might be better as “scared to lasting sickness...
...revolutionary “methods” of medicine. Dr. Knock plots to find disease in all his patients, and as he diagnoses them, they prove more and more pliable to his commands for modern treatment, with their eventual conversion to his methods suggesting a “triumph of medicine” that is fundamentally disturbing...
...study abroad. But given that global competition, don’t internationally-educated Americans more easily compete for foreign contracts and visitors? At a time when misperceptions of the United States abound, won’t international friendships and human understanding better position our country to triumph in ongoing ideological battles? Most importantly, might grappling with the human challenges other societies face spur young Americans to examine ourselves and our own society? In my experience, as a student abroad and a government analyst, the answer is yes. In the midst of his diatribe against international and interdisciplinary studies, Adomanis manages...
...United States in 2003, and Averno is her 11th poetry collection. Among other honors, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1992 collection “The Wild Iris,” and the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for her 1985 collection “The Triumph of Achilles...