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...forest of high-rise apartment blocks has made a cruel joke of the Place des Fêtes, a "festival square" where an infernal wind whips across an artless expanse of concrete. More of that? No thanks, say many Parisians. "Do we really have to leap into an infantile contest of verticality with other world cities to see who has the most beautiful and biggest?" asks Jean-François Blet, a Green member of the city council. "The tower is the symbol of the international banalization of the urban landscape, liberal globalization applied to architecture...
...prevention of a crime or misdemeanor that causes bodily harm" after allowing Frédéric Colin, 29, to get behind the wheel in February 2000. Tests showed Colin's blood-alcohol level was around three times the legal limit; the appeals court meanwhile ruled the couple - who contest the charges - should have alerted police after they failed to dissuade him from driving. The charges carry maximum sentences of five years in prison and a €75,000 fine. With nearly 50% of all auto fatalities alcohol related, previously lenient courts now appear ready to punish cavalier French attitudes...
...miserable relationship, Stacey weighed 180 lbs., deeply disliked the sight of her own face and didn't exactly radiate self-confidence. She didn't radiate much of anything, except perhaps a conviction that she looked 50 and would never be as happy or as attractive as Lisa, her bikini-contest-winning kid sister. The only detail May remembers about Stacey's visit to his shop that day is that she ordered a set of floor mats and never returned to pick them...
...fact, foul trouble plagued the Crimson’s starting big men all game long. Stehle picked up his second foul just 2:50 into the contest and didn’t play for the rest of the first half...
After Stanford went on a brief run to build a 21-9 lead nine minutes into the contest, Harvard mounted a comeback, pulling to within three...