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...moment, their aplomb seems to be deserting them. Judging by opinion surveys and diagnoses in the press, a country that long prided itself on being the lumiere du monde is awash in dark soul searching. The French are said to be fed up with politics and politicians. There is the hangover from the gulf war, an episode that deflated the vaunted image of French power and influence. Paris waffled about what to do almost to the last minute and ended up sheltering behind U.S. policy. In the harsh judgment of Jacques Julliard, a columnist for the progovernment weekly Le Nouvel...
...furor began when L'Evenement du Jeudi, a weekly magazine, published the confidential minutes of a 1985 CNTS meeting during which agency officials concluded that 100% of the concentrated blood-clotting factors used to treat French hemophiliacs were contaminated with the AIDS virus (HIV). The agency, which has a monopoly on blood for transfusions, not only kept its suspicions secret, but it had also ignored a 1984 recommendation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that blood products be heated in order to kill the deadly virus...
...movies. Lane went on to win a student Academy Award for best short in 1976 for A Place in Time, a 36-minute experimental film about a street artist; 13 years later, he revived that film's Chaplinesque hero in Sidewalk Stories, a silent feature that won the Prix du Publique Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Burnett's first feature, Killer of Sheep, about a man who works in a slaughterhouse, was one of the first 50 films archived in the Library of Congress's National Film Registry...
...bodice ripper" romance novels. Over the years they have watched Rhett sweep Scarlett up the stairs in Gone With the Wind; or Errol Flynn, who was charged twice with statutory rape, overpower a protesting heroine who then melts in his arms; or Stanley rape his sister-in-law Blanche du Bois while his wife is in the hospital giving birth to a child in A Streetcar Named Desire. Higher up the cultural food chain, young people can read of date rape in Homer or Jane Austen, watch it in Don Giovanni or Rigoletto...
Conditions practically guarantee more deaths. "There are sometimes up to 40 people living under the same tent," reports Dr. Gerard Salerio of the voluntary organization Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World), who returned to Paris from Uludere late last week. "These are not even tents; they are stretched blankets. People are too ashamed to relieve themselves during the day, so they do it at nighttime, between the tents. There is no hygiene anywhere." One doctor serves 100,000 people. As a result, says Salerio, "every day, 20 children are buried between the tents. Older people are dying...