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...many reasons. Because it's Paris, it's this place, it's my girlhood dream come true. Because in 1969, when I was 22, I came to Paris for the first time and stayed just around the corner, in a French crash pad at 9 rue Campagne Premiere. It was a six-floor walk up, with like eight people, and we all slept on the floor. I did a lot of drawings, and taped them all over the walls. And now these drawings are going to be on exhibition here. It's very moving for me. These drawings were done...
...treaty is, of course, secondhand goods. Some three years ago, with much fanfare, the European Union Constitutional Treaty was launched, only to bite the dust when the French and Dutch rejected it in national referendums. This is its second coming. Although the form is different, experts are divided only as to whether 95% of the content is the same, or merely 90%. Since all the most important constitutional innovations of the earlier treaty have been carried forward to the present one, that is neither here nor there...
...because the great majority of Europeans neither want it nor would feel any sense of allegiance to it. This is as true of France as of Britain. I was living in France during the 2005 referendum campaign, and it was clear that the treaty was rejected largely because the French were fed up with change after change being imposed on them in the name of Europe. What they wanted was stability: to know where they stood, and to remain first and foremost French...
...combat missions, McCain stressed the importance of "France's military participation in Afghanistan ... and of the brave forces of this country in fighting the Taliban." As part of that, McCain also thanked Sarkozy for "agreeing to send additional" troops to Afghanistan. That comment appeared to confirm unofficial reports that French president is planning announce his decision to increase France's Afghanistan contingent of 1,600 soldiers. The move - if it is indeed made at next month's NATO conference - would come in the wake of vigorous U.S. demands that its allies make a greater contribution to the Afghan effort...
...quips, conviction, and clear interest in international affairs sent the assembled French and international journalists away largely impressed from their 15 minutes with McCain. By playing the welcoming, if invisible, host at this juncture, meanwhile, Sarkozy has ensured himself an equally warm White House reception should McCain prevail next November...