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HUDS also plans to substitute their current brand of French fries with a cheaper trans fat-free fry, Martin said...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HUDS Confirms Specific Menu Changes | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...view was that "this author is beyond psychiatric help." As if to prove that a new moral compass was at work in inner space, Ballard's book attracted little controversy until 23 years later, when the shock-horror director David Cronenberg brought Crash to the big screen. The French, Ballard notes, "accepted without qualms the yoking together of sex, death and the motor car. Anyone who drives in France is steering into the pages of Crash." But in England, the movie's distribution was delayed for a year by a wave of media-led outrage. "What's going on here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.G. Ballard: The Emperor of Shepperton | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...DVDs. But he was all smiles when I caught up with him, taking a water break in his glistening white t-shirt and five-years-ago aviators. Steven, glad to see you are staying hydrated. Does it bother you that practically every DJ we have heard here tonight is French, German, or Dutch? “I am not at all suspicious of all the Europeans,” he replied, coughing through gulps of water. “My music tastes generally trend to guys like the Eagles, Bruce Springsteen—real all-Americans. But it?...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Last Night a DJ Saved Our Lives | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...killed during the Shoah. Had Sarkozy bothered to consult more widely before making the announcement, he might have avoided the storm of criticism calling the plan inappropriate and potentially traumatic for such young children. He has since modified that proposal in the face of polls showing 61% of the French public hostile to the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of Riling France's President | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...Sarkozy's style and omnipotence are chilling his relation with French voters, polls suggest they've been a tonic to his Prime Minister, François Fillon. The most recent polls show Fillon's popularity surging seven percentage points to 57% - a record-setting 19% gap between a French president and his hand-picked prime minister. Fillon was belittled as staid, wonkish and boring during Sarkozy's glittering first six months in power, but now he is enjoying a reputation as a solid, industrious executor of policy who tends to shun the bright lights now trained on the president. Perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of Riling France's President | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

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