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...heading is that if you treat them the same, address them as one, you may encourage them to see themselves that way. "Bush has really been the great unifier of all the previously divided and often mutually hostile groups we're trying to defeat rather than assemble," says Fran??ois Heisbourg, director of the Paris-based Foundation for Strategic Research. "Waging war in Iraq to combat terrorism has transformed Iraq into a nexus of terrorism it hadn't been before. Justifying the operation in Lebanon by putting Hizballah on the same terrorism shelf as al-Qaeda is getting radical Sunnis...
...permission to enter while France’s legislative body was in session, I wandered past well-tended flower beds. As passionate French politicians were broadcast live on myriad flat screens, also surrounding my trail were busts of Marianne, that feminine, immortal, omnipresent personification of la République fran??§aise. Meanwhile, other Harvard friends kicked down inner doors at the National Opera and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Although none of us was invited to dine with parliamentarians, sopranos, or immortals, we undoubtedly penetrated the façade, if not (yet) the innermost sanctuaries, of some...
...This rainy Sunday night, as I forgo the football match and sit here in front of my computer to send my regards to The Crimson, my room reeks of the Camembert I mistakenly left out while briefly stepping out to join my host father in watching The Simpsons en Fran??§ais. It is still delicious, though. (I’m currently in feasting mode, for the record). Aroma of Camembert or not, this moment is the first time during my whole month here that I have sat down in my room for a lengthy period of time. Scratch that...
...when he made The 400 Blows--an instant astonishment that set the French New Wave in motion--Fran??ois Truffaut had no idea of following his little hero, a 14-year-old played by Jean-Pierre Léaud, through 20 more years of seriocomic escapades. But the end of that film, a freeze-frame of Antoine on a beach, left Truffaut and his audiences asking, What next? The callow charisma of young Léaud also begged to be used again. What followed was a lovely short film (Antoine and Colette) and three features (Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board and Love...
Holman had a talent for brushing up against interesting people and things--literally. He occasionally got into trouble for groping a piece of statuary or other priceless artifact, and his biographer takes full advantage of any occasion for a rich, satisfying digression. Holman met Fran??ois Huber, a pioneering blind entomologist who, like Holman, had managed to carve out a career despite his disability. He studied bees using a special hinged hive that opened and shut like a book. Holman sailed with William Owen, the brilliant, illegitimate, eccentric naval captain who surveyed the coast of Africa...