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To the Question of Fantine (and Anne Hathaway)

Carole DeSanti | Posted 05.08.2013 | Books
Read More: Prostitution, Victor Hugo, Sex, Fantine, Les Miserables, Anne Hathaway, Anne Hathaway Oscars, Anne Hathaway Hatred, Anne Hathaway Acceptance Speech, Fantine Les Miserables, Books News
Carole DeSanti

For the world to be a better place for women -- and also, by the way, for men, and for young people -- it will need to become a place where the main thrust of our work and our pleasure is conceived not as an act of plunder, but of something else.

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Hugo Chávez and Victor Hugo

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.08.2013 | World
Read More: Lee Fahnestock, Al Gore, Beníto Juárez, Simón Bolívar, Hugo Chávez, Noam Chomsky, Fantine, George W. Bush, The Bishop of Digne, Eduardo Galeano, Barack Obama, Pablo Neruda, Cosette, Fidel Castro, Victor Hugo, Jean Valjean, Salvador Allende, Oscar Romero, Diego Rivera, Lázaro Cárdenas, Augusto Sandino, Ernesto Cardenal, President Clinton, Daphnee Denis, Victor Jara, World News
Norman MacAfee

I knew that Gore had seen the musical of Les Misérables with his sister, who was dying of cancer. I knew that Chávez's favorite book was Les Misérables. So I put the two men together.

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Victor Hugo and Abraham Lincoln

Norman MacAfee | Posted 03.31.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Lee Fahnestock, Javert, Dos Passos, Royal Shakespeare Company, Whitman, Brooklyn Museum?S Egyptian Collection, Claude-Michel Schoenberg, Fantine, Ginsberg, Les Miserables, American Civil War, Leo Tolstoy, David Hancock Turner, Dickens, War and Peace, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Marius, Sartre, Cosette, Neruda, Victor Hugo, LuAnn Walther, C. E. Wilbour, Abraham Lincoln, Alain Boublil, Cameron Mackintosh, Pasolini, Jacobin, Valjean, Entertainment News
Norman MacAfee

In this film awards season, two works embody enduring pinnacles of idealism.

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My Son, 'Les Miz,' and Me

Lisa Belkin | Posted 02.22.2013 | Parents
Read More: Fantine, One Day More, Les Miserables Film, Bring Him Home, Parenting and Les Miz, On My Own, Parentry, Jean Valjean, Cosette, Les Miserables Movie, Les Miserables Soundtrack, Video, Parents News
Lisa Belkin

Lives have soundtracks. Les Miz is ours.

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