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...expo, to be held on March 28, 2008, would star the chef Thierry Marx, famous for his ventures into molecular gastronomy with the chemist Jerome Bibbett; it would also feature the Harvard team’s inhalable chocolate. The exposition, held in that dark, smoky gallery, treated the trendy French crowd to three-tiered bento boxes starring a suckling pear dipped in chocolate with a surprise mound of vanilla caviar nestled inside. A colloidal masterpiece. Sharing the stage was the Le Whif exhibition, which had paired with Nespresso, Nestle’s coffee line. The concept was to drink...
...France an increasingly authoritarian society whose police forces are protected from frequent charges of abuse - ranging from racial insult to homicide? That's what Amnesty International maintains in a new report issued Thursday. According to the report, abuse complaints against French police are routinely dismissed, and a tacit immunity allows accused officers to counter-attack the minorities, immigrants, and economically disadvantaged people who constitute the majority of plaintiffs...
...French law officials deny the report's allegations of de facto police immunity, and also protest the characterization of the review process as complicit to the accused. (See pictures of France celebrating Bastille...
...problem is that Amnesty's documentation of the problem is less than complete. Though the dismissal figures of French police officers accused of brutality are remarkably low in relation to the total number of complaints, Amnesty says getting similar data from other countries is just as difficult as in France - making it impossible to compare that French record with other nations. But "even if there were comparative reports, we'd contest the conclusions drawn in this one as woefully incorrect," says Dider...
...fight back against the global recession, not with words but with a plan for global recovery and for reform and with a clear timetable for its delivery," declared the summit host, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Speaking of the agreements reached on tighter regulation of financial markets and institutions, French President Nicolas Sarkozy bigged up his own role in agitating for the measures: "That our Anglo-Saxon friends accepted all of this represents immense progress," he said, adding that "while there were moments of tension, we never thought we'd obtain such a big deal...