Word: yves
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...delays produced catastrophic results. Because of the tainted transfusions, nearly half of France's 3,000 hemophiliacs were infected with the AIDS virus; 200 of them subsequently developed the disease, and 180 have died. "It was criminal of them to leave the nonheated blood on the market," says Jean-Yves Lesne, whose two hemophiliac sons received HIV-contaminated blood products. "I am in the food industry, and if this had happened there, they would be in jail...
Every once in a while, though, an artist refutes this gloomy view. Here it is two artists: the late French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol and the French director Yves Robert, who have collaborated across the generations on two airily magnificent movies, My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle, adapted from Pagnol's memoirs. These films mope not; neither do they scold. Instead, audaciously, they take a vacation from fatalism and solemnity, locating radiance in the bosom of an ordinary bourgeois family. They say that life can be beguiling, beautiful -- at least in the storybook clarity of Pagnol...
Chave, who teaches Literature and Arts B-16: "Modern Art and Abstraction" (better known as "Spots and Dots"), filed the grievance in the fall after President Derek C. Bok overrode departmental recommendations and awarded the Pulitzer Professor of Modern Art chair to Johns Hopkins University Professor Yves-Alain Bois...
Henri Troyat, a member of the prestigious French Academy, charged that the omission would "disfigure the soul of a word." Book editor Yves Berger bemoaned the loss "of this marvelous chapeau de gendarme ((policeman's hat))." The brouhaha grew worse over the past two weeks as more members of the academy openly broke with the majority who voted for Rocard's reform last May, and it is possible they may force another vote. The academy will discuss the issue at its Thursday meeting this week, and if it recants, the government will have to think again...
Maine received two first-place votes from the league coaches, and the Black Bears haven't disappointed their backers. Led by Jean-Yves Roy, who is living up to all-league expectations with eight points in four games, the Black Bears have moved to fifth nationally...