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Today, Libé has a new benefactor in the form of Edouard de Rothschild, and a new unstarry-eyed editor, Laurent Joffrin. The paper flirted briefly with break-even in 2007 and it's trying to find a way to go post-ideological, sort of. The Net, conferences, French open-shirted philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy shilling with advertisers - the new Libé will try almost anything. Joffrin even invited Carla Bruni, wife of France's rightist President Nicolas Sarkozy, to serve as celebrity editor for a day, but that was a step too far and Joffrin was forced...
...Paris Conn to Sonar: Ouch French and British authorities admitted on Feb. 16 that two nuclear submarines, Le Triomphant and H.M.S. Vanguard, collided in early February while deep in the Atlantic Ocean. Though neither vessel was damaged enough to leak radiation or sink along with their approximately 32 combined nuclear missiles, the incident raised concerns over the European neighbors' lack of naval coordination...
Although most knights exist only in fairy tales, Harvard Squares’ Raymond E. Ost, chef and co-owner of Sandrine’s Bistro, was knighted yesterday with the medal of the French Order of the Mérite Agricole. Boston’s Consul General of France, Francois Gauthier, presented Ost with the honor in Gauthier’s Cambridge home. The French government award recognized Ost’s culinary career, which spans nearly four decades. It also honored his promotion of French cuisine and his use of local ingredients in his dishes. Gauthier indicated that approximately...
...will France's return actually mean much for NATO and its members? Is France likely to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan? Not really, and no. French activity in NATO has grown broader and deeper over the past few years already. France participated in a growing number of alliance-led missions including Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. Those operations erased most of the significant divisions created by de Gaulle's partial withdrawal in 1966, and rendered France's special status largely symbolic. (See pictures of Kosovo...
...France returning? "Although it already plays an active role within NATO in its present status, full membership would allow it both to fully participate in and shape the planning of NATO's future, as well as its military operations," says Bruno Tertrais, senior research fellow at the French Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. "That bigger role would correspond better to France's international stature, as well as its status as one of Europe's largest contributors to NATO...