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Cesar Martinez is no stranger to the kitchen. For the past six years, he has worked as a chef in French and Cuban restaurants in the U.S. Now back in his native Mexico, Martinez is finding himself in foreign territory: he has just landed a job as a wok chef at the first overseas P.F. Chang's outlet in Mexico City. "I've been reading books and doing research online," says Martinez, 38, "because I've never worked with Chinese food. I've never worked with...
...entire political landscape," says political analyst Stéphane Rozès, president of CAP, a consultancy. "Dominique de Villepin is a man of the 19th century whose weapons are words, while Nicolas Sarkozy is a postmodern man who wants action, not talk ... Each man represents a class of French politicians seeking ascendancy over one another." (See pictures of the French celebrating Bastille...
...Union countries to introduce the same asylum procedures, rather than wildly varying standards. Jacques Barrot, the commission's vice president, said the changes aimed to offer "a more level playing field" to the huge numbers of people from Africa, Asia and elsewhere flooding into Europe. (See pictures of the French cracking down on migrants...
...past week, France and Britain have tried to take a more aggressive approach by forcibly deporting asylum seekers. At midnight on Oct. 20, a flight chartered by French and British immigration officials left Paris for Kabul, carrying 27 Afghans - 24 of whom had been deported from Britain and three from France. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who visited Kabul last week, told reporters on Wednesday that "the situation of each Afghan migrant is examined individually." He added that the deportations had been conducted in accordance with international refugee conventions, and that the Afghan government had approved the flight plan...
...early to judge if Johnson was right. In 1984, when French far right politician Jean Marie Le Pen made a high-profile TV debut, his Front National party received a substantial boost in the polls. Griffin's shambling performance didn't on the face of it seem likely to gain him many converts and may have cost the BNP future votes. Some viewers may have been startled by the revelation that Griffin had once shared a platform with Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, and won't have been reassured by Griffin's risible statement that the KKK is "almost...