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...different this postcard scene looks from the desolate landscapes of Blois's vast housing projects - where he lives, along with nearly a third of the city's population. "I'm not asking for Christmas decorations, just street lights that work," says Ouzaanik, a 21-year-old university student and French-born son of Moroccan immigrants. "No one expects the projects to be transformed into something as nice as central Blois - that's impossible. But is it really necessary that we have...
...working-class suburbs of Paris are dominated by sterile high-rise public housing, where Arab immigrants from North Africa were shunted when they started arriving in the postcolonial years. Now their children and grandchildren subsist in squalor alongside fresh waves of African and South Asian immigrants and their French-born children. Families struggle to hang on to their dignity, while drug dealers and petty criminals exploit the only business opportunities to be found in those barren towns. Unemployment in some neighborhoods surpasses 40%, and hope is a rare possession. "Look, these are all kids who feel they're not considered...
DIED. Auguste Joseph Ricord, 74, French-born drug trafficker who from his base in Paraguay during the late 1960s and early '70s masterminded the Latin Connection, the syndicate that shipped $1.2 billion worth of Turkish heroin from Europe through Central and South America to the U.S.; of undisclosed causes; in Asunción, Paraguay. Arrested there in 1971 on U.S. conspiracy charges, Ricord, one of the biggest drug kingpins ever snared by the U.S., was sentenced in 1973 to 20 years' imprisonment, but was released after ten because of poor health...
...internship in France in my field, finance. Many of us Muslims, discouraged by discrimination in the French workplace, have moved to Britain and become successful. All we Muslims want is to be accepted as an integrated part of European society and to be given a chance to prove our skills. A big difference between France and Britain is that British companies will give us the opportunity do so. While the French are debating what to do about discrimination against Muslims, young French-born Muslim college graduates are fleeing France for Britain. Zishan Mohammad London Here in Cape Town we have...
HUBERT JOLY Globetrotter At first glance, Hubert Joly, 45, a former technology consultant and ex-chief of Universal Vivendi's game division, seems like an unlikely executive to lead Carlson Wagonlit Travel, the world's second largest business-travel company. But the French-born Joly, who loves to travel with his wife and two teenagers, insists that technology is what the $11.5 billion, Paris-based firm, with 12,500 employees in 140 countries, needs most to compete with online travel services like Expedia. His expertise should also help him handle the deregulation of reservation systems like Sabre...