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...Patriot Gains Many Europeans envy Americans' strong sense of patriotism [July 7]. This is most evident in the widespread display of the U.S. flag outside homes, businesses, factories and public institutions. Another difference is that in the U.S., immigrants assimilate patriotism very quickly. A French-born immigrant, for instance, soon identifies as American first and French second. By contrast, European Union attempts to impose a European identity have largely failed. Most citizens of the E.U.'s 27 member states jealously retain their national identity because they have never connected with the Brussels-based superstructure. The U.S. national motto...
...July 27 decision was revealed in Le Monde, which began its story asking whether "the burqa is incompatible with French nationality" The story suggested the answer is apparently yes, and unfurled that tale of a 32 year-old native Moroccan woman identified as Faiza M. as evidence. Though married to a French citizen and the mother of their three, French-born children, Faiza M. was denied citizenship on the grounds that she has "adopted a religious practice incompatible with essential values of the French community, particularly the principle of equality of the sexes...
...considered properly popular unless he is admitted to the company of Madame Tussaud's celebrities," the attraction's eponymous founder, the French-born Marie Tussaud told the British periodical Punch in 1849. But she couldn't resist including a smattering of unpopular characters, too. The so-called Chamber of Horrors still displays an anonymous Sans-Culottes standing close to the decapitated heads of some of the French Revolution's aristocratic victims. Nearby a lifeless Jean-Paul Marat bleeds into his bath...
...Sarkozy's tough talk and promises to impose order on France's troubled suburban housing projects also touches nerves in Algeria, since residents of such "banlieues" are frequently the French-born children of immigrants from Africa. Since winning its independence in 1962 after a brutal war, Algeria has long provided the largest flow of immigrants to France - though the number of visas issued to Algerians had rapidly dropped even before Sarkozy's election from 270,000 in 2001 to 120,000 this year. The pillars of Algeria's dominating National Liberation Front Party, meanwhile, trace their entry into politics...
...stark picture of the emaciated French-born actress Isabelle Caro - who stands 5 feet, 5 inches tall (1.65 m) and weighs just 70 pounds (32 kg) - is accompanied by the words: "No Anorexia." Caro, now 27, says she has suffered from the disorder since she was a teenager. In a statement on its website, Nolita defended the ad, which has appeared on giant billboards and leading newspapers in Italy. "Toscani literally stripped his subject, to show everyone through this nude body the reality of this illness, which in the majority of cases is caused by stereotypes caused by the fashion...