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...another table, Allison M. Colbert ’05 was pleased. “It’s nice that they’re trying,” she said
...French Exception Dead? The French state has meddled in business ever since Jean-Baptiste Colbert ran the economy for Louis XIV. Now some are saying enough is enough. A parliamentary report published last week slammed state-owned enterprises, saying the French model "no longer fulfills new international and European demands." Among firms singled out: France Télécom, which the government has just bailed out with a €9 billion injection; the postal service, which is 25% overstaffed compared with European rivals; and the national utility...
...followed Ethel Waters and Hattie McDaniel as the problem-solving maid in the early-50s sitcom "Beulah." In "Imitation," from the Fannie Hurst novel that has generated at least four movies, Beavers is Delilah, a single mom whose recipe for pancakes makes a fortune for her employer Bea (Claudette Colbert). Delilah is now a millionaire, sharing a mansion with Bea. Yet for her, upward mobility never gives her the notion of equality with whites; she insists on sleeping in the basement with her rebellious daughter Peola...
...Briefly back home, Peola gives another definition of passing when she warns her mother, "Even if you pass me on the street, you'll have to pass me by." She looks at Colbert and says, "Oh, I know it's terribly mean, Miss Bea. But you don't know what it's like to look white and be black. You don't know. I can't go on this way any longer!"(Washington's plangent contralto makes this line a heartbreaker.) Her exit line: "I know it's asking a lot. But I've got to live my own life...
...Allison [J. Colbert ’05] was the first person I ever met at Harvard,” said Kristina J. Matic...