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...many points of your article "In Search of Lost Time" [Dec. 3]. It is true there are no more figures like Camus, Sartre, Satie or Debussy in France. But we have such great artists as Le Clezio, Béjart and Boulez. Even philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy is a bit famous in the U.S. Maybe Americans cannot cite French authors, but I don't think many French can cite more than three authors who are not thriller or detective-novel writers. There are many interesting original movies, plays, comics and music in France. Anne-Sarah Bouglé, CAEN...
Maurice Lévy, chief executive of Paris-based advertising giant Publicis, played quite the provocateur in 2006. With the $1.3 billion acquisition of American online ad company Digitas, he is leading his company into the increasingly important Internet market. And he co-authored a controversial report sharply critical of many of postindustrial France's economic policies. He recently talked policy and politics with Time's Peter Gumbel...
...Princeton, simply because the Bears were slotted third and the Tigers sixth in the preseason poll. So this week, I’m instituting a month-long shelf life on memory, and considering only the past four games in casting my lots for Week 5.HARVARD (4-0 VY) VS. LAFAYETTE (2-3)Harvard is the lone Ivy squad that seems to have lived up to the classification it received from the so-called experts back in August—number one. Offensively, the Crimson is consistent and explosive and consistently explosive, posting 31 points...
...French philosopher Lévy is author of the recently published American Vertigo...
Before getting to the things that Bernard-Henri Lévy does well in American Vertigo, his entertaining and insightful account of how, last year, to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville - the aristocratic French author renowned for his perceptive and enduring classic, Democracy in America - the U.S. monthly magazine Atlantic commissioned Lévy, who is perhaps the world's most famous living celebrity-intellectual, to retrace the steps of De Tocqueville's 1831-32 ramble through the young republic, a trip that inspired Democracy, let's identify, just for the record, the single...