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...ranged from attacks on Chirac and surprising sympathy from some opposition Socialists to assaults on the court's legitimacy from the right. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin reacted with "surprise" to a verdict he qualified as "provisional" - even before Juppé decided to appeal. ump Minister Delegate for Schools Xavier Darcos condemned the ruling as "a political death sentence"; Eric Raoult, vice president of the ump parliamentary group, called it "disproportionate, hypocritical and cynical." Then things got really weird: judges who made the ruling said their phones had been tapped, their computers checked and their offices repeatedly "visited" by unknown...
...plot of The Spice Garden revolves around the friendship between the leaders of the island's two communities: Father Xavier Lunas, a Catholic priest, and Ghani, a Falstaffian hotelier and fish merchant. At the beginning of the novel, a wedding is being planned between a Muslim boy and a Christian girl. The social cataclysms that have begun to rack Indonesia are felt here only as faraway echoes, until a boatload of survivors of gruesome atrocities in strife-torn Ambon, the capital of Maluku, washes up on Noli's shores. Soon afterward, a gang of jihadist rabble-rousers arrives, with...
...Vatikiotis is admirably evenhanded in his attempts to elucidate the social forces that underlay it. For the most part, The Spice Garden avoids the usual plague of the journalistic novel of crudely putting exposition and argument in the mouths of its characters. The friendship between Father Xavier and Ghani is well rendered and has the ring of truth. Vatikiotis' writing style is polished and evocative, despite occasional patches of purple that could have been pruned. The novel's Romeo-and-Juliet subplot is sugary and painfully predictable, with lovemaking scenes that the judges of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award...
Putnam is in charge of props along with Cara Zimmerman ’05, whose prop ideas include a riding crop for militaristic character Xavier Self, as well as a wand and other accoutrements for the Diction Fairy...
...point guard situation, as sophomore Michael Beal—who leads the team in assists (15) and rebounds (27)—has established himself as the principal player. Junior David Giovacchini had originally started at the point in the team’s exhibition game against St. Francis-Xavier, but has since seen his time on the court dwindle, and saw only two minutes of action against the Black Bears...