Friday, May 21, 2004

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Chocolate Makers Fudgepackers and boring opera Fabricants de chocolat et soldats d'opérettes The US-European gulf will continue ...
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A Thousand Pardons

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As you can see, things have ground to a halt: we're all tbtb. Have faith, Dear Reader: we'll be back soon...
Wednesday, May 19, 2004

The Lie of Le Monde

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Straight to you from a French keyboard in Cannes' American Pavillon. On May 18, the newspaper of reference printed Une guerre sans ju...
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Here's a nickel, now beat it you filthy bum Voilà une pièce de 5 euro-centimes, casse-toi sale clodo Chiraq is passing the collect...

Euro 2004 Squad

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French National Team manager Jacques Santini has named his his 23-man selection for this summers Euro championships . In alphabetical o...
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France Today

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Ivorian Bloc Said to Plan Murder of French Soldiers Civil war broke out in Ivory Coast in 2002 but in January of last year, France negot...
Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Le Point sur l'actu française

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Abdelkader Bouziane has 16 kids in France • Abd al-Kader Bouziane, left, the Salafist imam of Vénissieux who preached wife beating and was h...
Sunday, May 16, 2004

Rules to Live and Die By

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( especially die by )

A Good Week for Anti-Americanism in France

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What with newly-appointed foreign minister Michel Barnier outdoing his predecessor in lambasting the situation in Iraq and Le Monde outdoi...
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Contre l'antisémitisme, je marche

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Ceremonies today in Fleury-devant-Douaumont — AFP =>Three to four hundred people gathered outside the memorial in Fleury-devant-Douaum...

Other News

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=>Some 780,000 people in France are to-day infected with the Hepatitis C virus, which is nearly 200,000 more than official statistics in...
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What a celebrity-TV show says about French attitudes to rural life

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Excerpts from Down on the farm , an article in The Economist : RENOWNED abroad for their fine culture, at home the French busily consume tra...
Saturday, May 15, 2004

News Roundup

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Micahel Moore is marching in the streets of Cannnes in solidarity with the Intermittents du spectacle , freelance and part-time entertainme...

Jospin against gay marriage

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An AFP news bulletin reports that former French prime minister Lionel Jospin has written an essay to appear in to-morrow's Le Journal d...

"People libel our nation in the most outrageous, abominable, and discreditable manner"

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"We are face to face with tremendous, strenuous competition" said one of the leaders of the world's superpower. "We have...
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Friday, May 14, 2004

Diplomatic News

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France has awarded the Légion d'honneur to ten Australian soldiers for their bravery during the allied landings on D-Day. France ha...

Edgar Morin Acquitted

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France's famous sociologist Edgar Morin, 82, is Sephardic Jew whose family, the Nahoums, came from Salonica . A long-time socialist and...

A Junior Class on Jews, Arabs, Israel, the United States, terrorism, bin Laden and the media 

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Two students from France's National Foundation for Political Science ( Sciences Pô ) conducted wide-ranging interviews with a group of ...

More Horrific Photos from Iraq

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Sickening! The Expat Yank has more horrific photos from Iraq . (This must be one of those that the media has gratefully spared our eyes fr...

The Profundity of Plantu's Hilarious Cartoons

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The fairness, the subtlety, and the eternally-wise-to-the-ways-of-the-world character of Plantu 's latest cartoons are discussed on Eu...