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...French Riviera, sitting on your 100-foot yacht, and planning a cocktail party for 60 of your closest movie-star friends. Now let's say you decide that your party absolutely, positively requires a bushel of Patagonian blueberries, a case of 1990 Dom Perignon, some bongo drums, and a pair of llamas. Who do you call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeeves 2.0 | 6/10/2008 | See Source »

...proclaimed "third way" is working-including, for instance, an invitation for him to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao-frustration could also erupt in Tibet itself, they warn. The Dalai Lama himself has expressed this fear. If the talks break down, "demonstrations I think will happen," he told the French news service AFP in late May. "Serious demonstrations-not only demonstrations, but also involving violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing: A Harder Line on Tibet? | 6/10/2008 | See Source »

Rowling, who has a degree in French and the classics from the University of Exeter, said her greatest fear as a recent graduate was failure, adding that she “failed on an epic scale” in her early adult years as an unemployed single mother who was “as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain without being homeless...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rowling Charges Grads To Accept Failure, Cultivate Imagination | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

Widely considered the greatest French couturier of his generation, Yves Saint Laurent, who died June 1 in Paris at age 71, was also credited with democratizing fashion and empowering women with his strong, sexy silhouettes. He famously brought the vernacular of the street to high-fashion runways--with motorcycle jackets, peacoats and berets--and put women in men's clothing, specifically the tuxedo, or Le Smoking. Inspired by artists like Mondrian, Picasso and Matisse, he aimed to make women look beautiful and feel confident. He did both effortlessly. Born in Algeria, Saint Laurent went to work for Christian Dior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Fashion King | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...been a place of conflict and war where boundaries and frontiers expanded and receded at a terrible cost to millions of its citizens. Rivalries between Nations and power blocks constantly erupted. It was in the aftermath of the massive death toll and destruction of the second World War that French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman made the proposal in 1950 which would later lead to the establishment of the European Union. His first objective was to prevent further wars by building structures through which points of disagreement could be resolved peacefully. Initially this concept must have seemed unbearably naive after such...

Author: By Sile De valera | Title: What Now for the EU? | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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