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After the month-long audition process, which consisted of several weekly meetings, six finalists remained. Their tunes were performed by singers and pianists to an audience of professional composers...
Like the end of the harvest, we come to the last of our month-long survey of recent comix by women cartoonists. Leela Corman's "Subway Series," Debbie Drechsler's "The Summer of Love," Lynda Barry's "One Hundred Demons," and Phoebe Gloeckner's "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" are all semi-autobiographical stories about a young woman's adolescence. We saved the most difficult for last...
...there may be wisdom in Raffarin's go-slow strategy. In 1995, France's last conservative government provoked crippling month-long strikes with its steamroller approach to reform. The fury unleashed by that effort cost the rightist government of Prime Minister Alain Juppé its parliamentary majority in 1997 elections, won by a previously floundering coalition of leftist parties united under Socialist Party leader Lionel Jospin. Aware of France's dimming economic outlook, Chirac and Raffarin are now opting for caution over collision?and have backed down when their measures have generated opposition. The tact is apparently working: approval ratings...
...really expect anything else? Sure, we had a month-long football festival in two countries without strong soccer traditions, and yes, it was full of surprises. There were the astonishing early eliminations?favorites Argentina and reigning champions France headed home after the first round. There were the shock victories, like Senegal's 1-0 win over the French in an opening match that set the tourney's roller-coaster tone, and the U.S.'s 3-2 defeat of Portugal that helped the Americans advance to the quarterfinals for the first time since 1930. And there were the Cinderella marches...
...really expect anything else? Sure, we had a month-long football festival in two countries without strong soccer traditions, and yes, it was full of surprises. There were the astonishing early eliminations - favorites Argentina and reigning champions France headed home after the first round. There were the shock victories, like Senegal's 1-0 win over the French in an opening match that set the tourney's roller-coaster tone, and the U.S.'s 3-2 defeat of Portugal that helped the Americans advance to the quarterfinals for the first time since 1930. And there were the Cinderella marches...