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...more than a week, officials at France's Foreign and Defence Ministries have been doing a valiant but thankless spin job trying to justify France's miserly contribution to the beefed-up UN peacekeeping force for south Lebanon. An additional 200 men was regularly touted as "a doubling of the French UN contingent," and much was made of the 1700 military personnel offshore on French ships shuttling refugees to Cyprus. " We're the only country that has sent any new troops to UNIFIL so far," bristled one Defense Ministry official earlier this week. "The Americans are nowhere to be seen...
...Little Miss Sunshine, I believe, made a valiant attempt. Halfway through watching the film, I remembered that nothing in the calculated world of Hollywood (or, for that matter, in the quirky land of independent film) is random. Aside from the darling Olive (Abigail Breslin), Frank is really the heart of this sweet film, and it turns out to be perfectly fitting that he has devoted his heretofore empty life to Marcel Proust. Frank's associations with Proust are only mentioned here and there (he likes to remind the family that he is a renowned Proust scholar while he's helping...
...those losses was to Cornell. After Harvard came back to tie the game at two, the Big Red was able to score in the last 37 seconds for the win. The Crimson then failed to score against Brown, losing 2-0 for its fifth straight loss. Harvard made another valiant effort to end its winless streak when it played Princeton, ending the game not in a loss but a 1-1 tie. Harvard was able to draw first blood in its game against Dartmouth when Altchek scored a goal early in the game, but the Crimson could not hold...
...grades.”Of the Class of 2006 the winners from Adams House are Ian K.L. Goh, Matthew Guarnieri, Julian E. Kolev, and Philip W. Kreycik, from Cabot House Sarah L. Paiji, and from Currier House James Sawalla Guseh II, Steve Y. Lee, Pablo M. Ros, Gregory J. Valiant, and Danny F. Yagan.Dunster House winners are William P. Deringer, Sarah E. Fawcett, Mary J. James, David M. Kaden, Iliana Montauk, Stuart J. Robinson, and William G. Woolston, and those honored from Eliot House are Amelia E. Atlas, Heather L. Brink-Roby, Annelisa H. Pedersen, and Rowena H. Potts.The prizewinners...
...April 17]. That plane's story was the only relatively "good" news on that horrible day. When passenger Todd Beamer said "Let's roll!" and led those heroes forward in their charge on the terrorists in the cockpit, he was partly inspired by a Teddy Roosevelt quotation praising the valiant person "who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." This movie honors the passengers, and I will try to honor them by seeing it, no matter how painful...