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...What's the attraction? The young singer-songwriter is reviving an old French tradition: the chanson. Back in the 1960s, these nostalgic songs captured the hearts of music lovers with their emotion-charged lyrics and rousing delivery, sometimes, but not always, accompanied by the accordion. Charles Aznavour, Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy and others - with their haunting and spirited ballads of regret and doomed love - were in vogue around the world. Now, Delerm and artists like Keren Ann, Benjamin Biolay, Carla Bruni and Thomas Fersen are making chansons chic again. The new-old sound incorporates elements of big band...
...technology is unproven on this scale, but during a nationally televised interview Chirac declared that " France is on the verge of getting ITER" over the rival site of Rokkasho-Mura in northern Japan. Then E.U. and Japanese negotiators produced a "technical agreement" that French Deputy Minister for Research François d'Aubert said "may lead Japan to decide not to host the reactor." But Japan 's Science Minister Toichi Sakata insisted that "the question of the ITER site has not been resolved," calling Chirac's comments "inappropriate." Officials from the E.U., which along with Russia and China backs France...
...significantly since the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 to prohibit discrimination against disabled people and guarantee access to public buildings. "It's obvious we have to do something now because we are very much behind other countries, notably the Nordic countries and the U.S.," says Jean-François Chossy, a deputy in France's National Assembly, who sponsored a bill in February that prevented the deadline for disabled access from being extended beyond 10 years. "We are very late...
...Fran Trowbridge, 72, a retiree, the answer was easy. Two Flexcars are stationed in the garage of a Seattle high-rise next to hers. A month after joining Flexcar, she sold her Ford Taurus. Insurance had cost her more than she pays for 10 hours of monthly car-share fees, which is all she needs to shop and visit friends. "And I sure don't miss the maintenance and lubing part," she says. Similarly, for the Steelquists--a two-job, two-kid, two-car family--price was a motive. "We wanted to dial back on expenses and also reduce...
...Taken together, the various releases demonstrate the deep shadow Mitterrand still casts over France nine years after his death. "He remains fascinating to people of the left and the right," says ex-Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine, a key Mitterrand adviser and current president of the Institut François-Mitterrand, an institution devoted to preserving Mitterrand's memory. "Sixty years of political life during very troubled political times, his move from the right to the left, his intellectual authority, psychological strength, and stupendous culture - it all adds up to a romantic figure...