Word: andré
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Those concerns have strengthened Pomy farmer Andr? Chevalley's support for the SVP. Sitting at a wooden table in his sprawling farmhouse, Chevalley says that "bad" foreigners have no place in Switzerland. "If they commit a crime, they have to be thrown out," he says. "I absolutely think the SVP has the right idea...
...Monde, Redeker wrote that one website condemning him to death included a map showing exactly where he and his family lived, along with photos of him and his workplaces. In the letter, published as part of an appeal of support signed by French intellectuals including Bernard-Henri L?vy, Andr? Glucksmann and Elisabeth Badinter, Redeker writes that he and his family are being forced to move every two days. "I'm a homeless person," he complains. "I exercised a constitutional right, and I'm being punished for it right here on the territory of the Republic...
...what's the solution? Transparency and a willingness to listen and adapt can help. While November's unrest and arson attacks affected many suburbs around Paris, the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux to the south of the French capital was largely spared. There, Mayor Andr? Santini has bet heavily on technology infrastructure in a successful bid to attract international firms such as Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. He's also used technology to interact more openly with Issy's 63,000 residents. Issy was the first French town to start an Internet-based local TV service, and last December...
When the producer Andr? Morgan proposed making a movie musical in 2003, indie filmmaker Peter Chan was less than receptive. "I thought there was a reason no one had made a musical for 35 years," says Chan. "Audiences wouldn't go to them." But the lure of shooting in mainland China for the first time was enticing, and Chan saw an opportunity to make a modern musical without compromising dramatic complexity. With Morgan, the producer behind Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby, and a $10 million budget, Chan assembled a starry cast: Taiwanese-Japanese icon Takeshi Kaneshiro, rising mainland actress Zhou...
...biennale unfolds across Sydney, mute and minimalist, it is refreshing to remember that artists once weren't so scared of making a noise. "The simplest Surrealist act consists in going down into the street, revolvers in one's hands, and firing at random, wilfully, into the crowd," Andr? Breton, who founded the movement in Paris, famously declared...