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...filmmaking over being a foreign correspondent. "They both use the self as a filter to show what is going on in the world," he says. He scored a writing-directing deal from Universal shortly after graduating in 1990, and promptly spent five grand of his paycheck on late-'80s Bordeaux. "I was overeager, like most tyros are," he says...
...Even fiercely secular France is embroiled in the gay cultural wars. An appeals court in Bordeaux ruled this summer that "a difference of sex is a condition of marriage," nullifying the first same - sex ceremony celebrated in France. Last week scores of prominent French homosexuals?including Paris' openly gay mayor Bertrand Delanoë, designer Jean Paul Gaultier and tennis star Amélie Mauresmo?signed a public manifesto demanding a law that allows homosexuals the right to parenthood and adoption. "We are parents, dream to become them, in some cases regret never having been," the manifesto states. "We simply want...
...focus on the contrast between your garlic steamed branzino and the lingonberry-walnut chutney it came with, you don't want too much distraction coming from the window trims. It's bad enough that you may be addressing this question after your third glass of that witty, ambitious Bordeaux...
Carmenere is just one of the reborn grapes that South Americans are using to make their breakthrough wines--the ones to finally set them apart from French Bordeaux and Spanish Rioja. Malbec, another recently revived red-wine varietal, already represents a quarter of Argentina's wine exports and is hailed as the nation's new vinicultural emblem. "Now we intend to place Argentine wines among the best in the world," says Ernesto Catena, 37, leaping over Malbec casks at his family's Catena Zapata winery in the Mendoza region. Even Uruguay, whose coups until now were usually only military...
...that differential that made Montreal track coach Daniel St.-Hilaire order the Best Runner, a "speed-optimization system" designed by Pierre-Edouard Sainsily, a biomechanical engineer in Bordeaux. The $58,000 device consists of video cameras, sensors and other data-collecting gadgetry that are positioned on a track and wired to a workstation mounted trackside. St.-Hilaire uses it to record the speed, acceleration, starting power and strength of athletes such as Nicolas Macrozonaris, 23, Canada's top male sprinter, who has run a 10.03-sec. 100 m. Ranked No. 19 in the world in 2003, Macrozonaris will probably need...