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Blessed are the peacemakers, but the FirstCouple of France may have had more political aims in engineering their dramatic accord with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The personal involvement of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife C??cilia in freeing six medics who faced execution in Libya on trumped-up murder charges earned cheers from many. But it also generated grousing from E.U. officials who suggest Sarkozy cut in on their low-key negotiations with Tripoli in the final stretch to break the tape himself and get the credit...
...Gaddafi--and to warn that Sarkozy could not see the legitimacy-starved Gaddafi on Sarkozy's most recent trip to Africa if the prisoners were still detained. That diplomatic carrot, along with promises to normalize E.U.-Libyan relations, got the medics on France's Bulgaria-bound presidential jet--alongside C??cilia--some 36 hours before Sarkozy's state visit to Tripoli began. There is an economic motive for France's power play as well: among the topics explored was how French companies could develop the Libyan economy better than their U.S., British or German rivals...
...C??line Sauls, a 31-year-old Parisian who emigrated to Orlando 10 years ago, was back to pay her respects. Just before she moved from France, one of the last things she did was to sit atop Morrison's tombstone, tell him about her plans to live in the U.S., and say goodbye...
...French even when addressed in English. If I had a girlfriend, I would make out with her unabashedly in public. And I smoke cigarettes at crowded cafés to the dire annoyance of the American family beside me, responding to their complaints with a snippety: “C??est la France...
...student’s interaction with Walcott landed the Boston University (BU) professor in the pages of the New York Times that year: a Harvard sophomore accused him of sexual harassment, and alleged that after declining his advances, she was given the only “C?? in his class...