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...confused: “Why would David want to take me shopping?” This kind of natural, charming innocence keeps the audience sympathetic toward Jenny despite her vain, often painful attempts to seem old and sophisticated, the most embarrassing of which are her frequent, unprovoked outbursts of French...
...fitting coincidence, the first known manned balloon flight occurred 226 years to the day before Falcon's supposed flight. On Oct. 15, 1783, French scientist Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier ascended 84 ft. (25 m) off the ground - the length of the rope attached to the vessel. He followed this tentative milestone with the first untethered flight on Nov. 21, reaching an altitude of 3,000 ft. (900 m). But de Rozier would also have the inglorious distinction of becoming ballooning's first fatality. During a 1785 attempt to cross the English Channel, de Rozier...
Here's a riddle: What unites French Socialists and British Conservatives and brings feminists together with the editors of prurient tabloid newspapers? Answer: Tony Blair. Across Europe, natural adversaries are finding common purpose in their efforts to stop Britain's former Prime Minister from assuming the role popularly known as President of Europe...
...into the war will summon Blair to give evidence. Families of dead troops have called for him to be indicted as a war criminal. Blair's support for the U.S. on Iraq curdled public opinion outside his homeland too. François Hollande, the former first secretary of the French Socialist Party, has dismissed the idea of a Blair candidacy. The first President of Europe, he said, should be "politically autonomous from...
Then there's the fact that Britain has always stood apart from central E.U. policies such as the common currency. "The very candidacy of Mr. Blair is a slap in the face for Europe," says Philippe Moreau Defarges, European-affairs specialist for the French Institute of International Relations. "The U.K.'s habit of participating only in those E.U. projects it wants to be involved with" is a strike against a Blair presidency, he says. The Benelux countries - the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg - feel the same...