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...think it's their fault that they are on trial." Reconstructing the children's lives will be essential in breaking the cycle of incest that has endured in many of the families for generations. "This will be a very, very complicated task and will take many years," says Pierre-André Julié, a psychoanalyst in Angers. The children's wounds run deep. And like those of Angers, they will take a long time to heal...
...proof that the U.S. really is an incomprehensible place - and that the chasms and fights of the past several years are likely to continue. The President's win "erodes the view that one must distinguish between the disliked Bush Administration and the American society we've always loved," says André Kaspi, director of the Sorbonne's North American History Center. Never mind that 55 million Americans voted to send Bush back to Texas. Never mind that of those who considered Iraq the country's most important issue, 74% voted for Kerry. The American conservatives - whose policies have helped push...
...drop in at London's Royal Academy of Arts, which is showing more than 50 of her paintings in the first major exhibition of her work in Britain. De Lempicka and her husband fled to Paris to escape the Russian Revolution of 1917. She studied painting under the Cubist André Lhote and hoped to earn a living from her work, but she did more than merely get by. Her career took off as she managed to secure celeb sitters; her own beauty and dress sense helped her gain entry into the best circles, but she also worked long hours...
...sense of wonder No reading list of South African books would be complete without Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country or Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom. But here are more recent works to read before your visit. The Other Side of Silence (Vintage) by prolific author André Brink follows the journey - physical and emotional - of a young German woman who travels to southwest Africa, where she confronts chauvinistic settlers, a harsh desert landscape and her own demons. Antjie Krog began her career as a poet but is best known for her semifictionalized memoir Country...
...nation's restaurant owners. It was billed as just deserts after President Jacques Chirac failed to convince other European Union nations to lower the value-added tax on restaurant meals from the current 19.6% to 5%. The move illustrates the clout of the food lobby and its leader André Daguin, a former two-star Michelin chef. They claimed they could create 40,000 new jobs if they got the tax break on social-insurance costs - and hinted that many might vote for the extreme-right National Front if Chirac didn't deliver. Other groups who argue they need...