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...Smith,” is made painfully clear: man is alone, confused, and just desperate for a little help from his friends.And in the beautifully (but bleakly) rendered world that Travis crafts, he will wait and wait and wait. In the words of lead singer Fran Healy, “Ode to J. Smith” is fashioned as a “dark fairy tale.” Wholeheartedly embracing a paradoxically deeply humanistic and pessimistic ethos, the record narrates the day of its eponymous protagonist’s failed suicide attempt. Each track represents a different moment...
...PARIS, FRANCE Crash Diet Wrapped in a brown apron as he greets visitors with a warm, booming voice, François Bonduel owns the kind of Parisian restaurant beloved by tourists and locals alike. But these days - with the euro still strong and economies seizing up around the globe - the foreign visitors that typically make up a third of Bonduel's clientele have been thinning out and spending less. To make matters worse, many French visitors to his restaurant, Au Bon Saint-Pourçain - a stone's throw from the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris' tony sixth arrondissement...
...Petrella's clearly critical health condition may strike some observers as tough. But it becomes more understandable against the broader history of Red Brigades fugitives enjoying refuge in France despite long-standing extradition treaties between the countries. France's official tolerance resulted from a deal that former Socialist President François Mitterrand extended in 1985 to Italy's left-wing terrorists: if they renounced violence, they could live in France under open-ended amnesty. Scores of former terrorists did just that, living openly and unmolested - much to the ire of authorities and terror victims in Italy. It was under...
Paris, France Wrapped in a brown apron as he greets visitors in a warm, booming voice, François Bonduel owns the kind of Parisian restaurant beloved by tourists and locals alike. But these days - with the euro still relatively strong and economies seizing up around the globe - the foreign visitors that typically make up a third of Bonduel's clientele have been thinning out and spending less. To make matters worse, many French visitors to his restaurant, Au Bon Saint-Pourçain - a stone's throw from the church of St. Sulpice in Paris' tony sixth arrondissement...
...during the anthem was a form of protest, the perpetrators would have awoken disappointed on Wednesday, as they found themselves subjected to a torrent of outrage. "Those who want to [jeer] a national anthem should be banned from the matches they've come to watch," scolded French Prime Minister François Fillon...