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Rising unemployment creates France's "Generation Slog"
Reuters* A quarter of young French people are jobless * Most jobs for the young are on temporary contracts * Employers avoid adding to legally-protected permanent staff * Young feel older workers are hogging the best jobs By Catherine Bremer PARIS, April 25...Tags: Arts and Culture, Labor Legislation, Rentals, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice
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After six decades, Mom hangs up the red pen
Change of SubjectNearly 60 years after she first stood in front of a classroom of students, my mother will retire from teaching on Tuesday. She began in 1954 with a freshman English section at Miami University in Ohio where she was a...... -
Swimming in father's stories in 'Big Fish'
With British and Irish yarns so dominant at the higher end of Broadway, time surely is ripe for an American family musical, at once fantastical and emotional, with its heart in family reconciliation and its roots in the florid storytelling culture of...
Tags: Human Interest, Arts and Culture, Fishing, Music, Entertainment
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After 6 decades, Mom hangs up the red pen
Nearly 60 years after she first stood in front of a classroom, my mother will retire from teaching Tuesday. She began in 1954 with a freshman English section at Miami University in Ohio where she was a graduate student. She went on to teach nursery...
Tags: High Schools, Music, University of Michigan, Miami University, Teaching and Learning
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Announcing the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners
Ben Fountain's satire "Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk" was named the winner of the L.A. Times 2012 book prize for fiction on Friday night at a ceremony in Los Angeles. Katherine Boo's "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Book, Literature
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War, and a warning, at L.A. Times book awards
The darkly comic tale of soldiers spending Thanksgiving leave at a Dallas Cowboys game and a warning of the environmental threats to the female body were among the winners Friday at the annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. The awards to Ben Fountain in...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Book, Authors, Fiction, Lyndon B. Johnson
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'In the House' Review: Darkly Funny, the Best Teacher-Student Movie Since 'Election'
ReutersApr 19 (TheWrap.com) - French filmmaker François Ozon has triumphed in a variety of genres, from psychosexual drama ("Water Drops on Burning Rocks") to workplace satire ("Potiche") to murder-mystery musical ("8 Women"), but his biggest hit to date in the...Tags: Arts and Culture, Book, Charlotte Rampling, Authors, In the House (movie)
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New Baudelaire self-portrait illuminates face of dark poet
ReutersPARIS, April 18 (Reuters) - The discovery of a lost self-portrait of Charles Baudelaire has rekindled interest in the 19th century French poet, revealing a lighter, painterly side to a literary "enfant terrible" known for his dark, erotic poetry. The...Tags: Arts and Culture, Museums, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arts, Paris (France)
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IMPAC Dublin Award shortlist includes three Americans, Murakami
The IMPAC Dublin Literary Award announced its shortlist for 2013 on Tuesday, and a refreshingly diverse group it is, with five novels in translation -- from Japan, Iceland, Norway, the Netherlands, and France -- listed along with one British, one Irish...Tags: Arts and Culture, Awards and Prizes, Netherlands, Norway, Authors
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'Historia, Historia' recalls an island sojourn
When Eleanor Stanford boarded a plane to spend two years on the islands of Cape Verde, she had no idea what she was in for. She didn't know the language. She didn't know what the people ate. She didn't even know where she was going to live. -------...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Anorexia, Book, Cape Verde, Peace Corps
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David Tennant plays it straight in BBC America’s “Spies of Warsaw”
Channel Guide MagazineSpies of Warsaw concludes its two-part run April 10. By John Crook There’s something almost puppy-like about the way David Tennant bounds into this Beverly Hills restaurant with a face-splitting grin. He’s dressed chic-casual, slacks and sport... -
Oscars 2013: 'Les Miserables' wins for Anne Hathaway, plus two more
In an Oscars broadcast that was packed with tributes to movie musicals, "Les Miserables" won three Academy Awards on Sunday, including a win for Anne Hathaway for supporting actress. The film also won in the categories of sound mixing and make-up....
Tags: Alain Boublil, Anne Hathaway, Music, Academy Awards, Russell Crowe
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