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Conversely, foreign fiction - especially topical, realistic novels - sells well in France. Such story-driven Anglo-Saxon authors as William Boyd, John le Carré and Ian McEwan are over-represented on French best-seller lists, while Americans such as Paul Auster and Douglas Kennedy are considered adopted sons. "This is a place where literature is still taken seriously," says Kennedy, whose The Woman in the Fifth was a recent best seller in French translation. "But if you look at American fiction, it deals with the American condition, one way or another. French novelists produce interesting stuff, but what they...
...burn it. “The flag’s $50. I can always get another one,” he said. “But it showed a lack of respect.” The Game is a newer tradition for 1977 Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate William M. Marticorena—he has been to three—but he goes with the same purpose: to reconnect with old friends. Marticorena, who lives in California, flies across the country each year for the game to see an old friend from HLS, who now lives in New York. Harvard...
...hard-working member. Bagdis nabbed the Joseph E. Wolf Award given to the team’s best lineman. Senior offensive lineman Andrew Brecher won the Henry N. Lamar award given to the program’s most dedicated player, and senior center David Paine was honored with the William Paine LaCroix Trophy, given to the most enthusiastic and loyal Crimson football player. Senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti won the team’s Frederick Greeley Crocker Award, which has in recent years been deemed the Most Valuable Player award for the team. In a speech early in the evening, Bagdis...
...thing that everyone has been debating is: what are the catalysts for consolidation?" says William Swelbar, a research engineer with MIT's International Center for Air Transportation. "We had $85 oil a month ago and tried to test $100 last week. Any time an industry is facing unprecedented cost increases like that it is time to start looking at ways to shed fixed cost." The price of oil is a pinch felt by everyone, and Swelbar says that any merger will signal "game on" to the industry. "If this pushes that first domino, everybody has hinted they will respond...
...Islam as a global issue is more of an interest to students,” said Arabic professor William Granara, connecting this interest to political developments in the Middle East. “More and more kids are interested in Arabic as a language, where there is high media interest...