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...face its moment of truth at a summit in Brussels tomorrow, when French President Nicolas Sarkozy will attempt to cajole his fellow leaders into agreeing on an ambitious package of emission-cutting measures. The so-called 20-20-20 plan aims to reduce 20% of greenhouse gases by 2020, compared with 1990 levels, raise renewable energy's share of the market to 20% and cut overall energy consumption by 20%. (Read TIME's Heroes of the Environment...
...gilded walls of Lancaster House could speak, they would surely have interrupted Monday's meeting there to rebuke Gordon Brown for failing to invite Angela Merkel. Britain's Prime Minister was joined at the elegant mansion in London by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and E.U. Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to discuss concerted European efforts to tackle the economic downturn, but there was no place at the table for the German Chancellor...
Just two weeks after Music Director Laureate and legendary conductor Seiji Ozawa returned to the Boston Symphony Orchestra for a spectacular all-French program, it was Maestro James Levine who took the podium Saturday night for an ambitious program featuring works that span the spectrum of musical genres. From the classical symphony of Beethoven’s 7th to the Neo-classical ballet of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” to the new horn concerto of famed American composer Elliott Carter, concertgoers young and old indulged in another musical treat of the highest quality...
...Dartmouth College. Other former students described Hoffmann as “part of a cult of personality” of Harvard professors and an “absolutely legendary lecturer.” Hundreds of undergraduates regularly flocked to his popular courses on the origins of war and French history, despite the universal concensus that he assigned a voluminous amount of reading. Princeton professor Gary J. Bass ’92 recalls an incident when a teaching fellow burst into Hoffmann’s office with a course syllabus in hand. “Stanley, you are not doing this...
...including Per Se, Adour and Chanterelle, will serve multicourse Victorian banquets of each chef's interpretation, from January to March 2009, and donate some of the proceeds to charity. Café des Artistes will recreate the dinner you may have drooled over in the film Babette's Feast, while French seafood restaurant Le Bernadin will do all things de la mer, complete with top hats, candles, and "the rich sauces of the day," says chef Eric Ripert. Check the Zagat Guide's website for dates, menus and locations...