Word: frans
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...that report came out, three senior French officials took the battle to Brussels, demanding that French be made the official language of the E.U. justice system. Arguing that French "reduced the risks of differing interpretations" in a way no other language could, the manifesto - authored by Académie Française member Maurice Druon, Paris Bar Association president Jean-Marie Burguburu and the state prosecutor of France's highest court, Jean-François Burgelin - calls for "all texts of legal or normative nature engaging the members of the Union" to be written in French. "This is built...
...have done enough to convince voters that Kerry is an out-of-touch lefty on those issues. Of course, if the Republicans can do so in the next two weeks, 2004 could still look like 1988 after all. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr., Eric Roston and Elaine Shannon/Washington; Fran Stewart/Cleveland; and Stacy J. Willis/Las Vegas...
...Crimson finished seventh in a twelve-team field. Sophomore skipper Kristen Lynch and junior crew Anjali Salooga took seventh in the A-division, with 66 points. Sailing in the B-division, sophomore skipper Marion Guillaume and junior crew Fran Moore also took seventh, with 75 points...
...killings. In this case, Russian President Vladimir Putin is guilty for actions that have made desperate the Chechens and others who seek independence from Russia. As long as violence is seen as the only way to negotiate - in Russia, the Middle East or anywhere else - more innocents will die. François Borel-Hänni Lille, France No political or religious cause can ever justify deliberate harm to children. Yet humanity has the uncanny ability to lower itself to unfathomable depths of evil. After the events in Beslan, no doubt even God is in despair of what has become...
...ties to terrorists. He returned to London, saying, "The whole thing is totally ridiculous," and vowed to challenge the ban. DIED. FRANCOISE SAGAN, 69, French author who at 19 wrote the best-selling 1954 novel Bonjour Tristesse, about seduction and infidelity among the idle rich; in Honfleur, France. Born Françoise Quoirez, she took her pen name from a character in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Though she never matched the success of her first book, Sagan went on to write 30 novels, as well as short stories and plays . DIED. EDDIE ADAMS, 71, photojournalist...