Word: frenchness
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Beinart says: "America won World War II." Sorry. Wrong! He missed the small matter of Britain, Australia, Canada, South Africa, other Commonwealth countries, Free French, Poles and Russia. It is time that the American attitude of "If we are in it, we won it" died. After all, you are usually late. John Steers, SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND...
...make a wine that was simple and natural." That meant rejecting the common thermovinification technique (which he says homogenizes wines) in favor of a cold carbonic maceration that preserves freshness without added sulfites. His Beaujolais-Villages, with their ample red fruit flavors and light, tickling tannins, epitomize the French word for silky gulpability - gouleyant...
...warehouse space the size of a basketball court, teenagers in baggy jeans are spray-painting graffiti on the paper-covered walls while others pound away at a punching bag. Near the center of the room, a handful of youngsters gather around a thumping sound system and swap French slang-infused lyrics over a heavy hip-hop beat. Reclining on a nearby sofa, sporting a black leather jacket and yellow athletics pants, his short dreadlocks covered by a furry ushanka hat, British musician Tricky - the one responsible for this scene - is beaming. "It's wicked," he says. "People just come...
...Reportedly speaks many languages, including Dutch, German, English, Urdu and Hindi, as well as basic French and Persian...
...French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, also at the Munich conference, were silent on whether they would offer more troops. German Defense Minister Franz-Josef Jung told the conference that the priority in Afghanistan should be civic support. "We will not win by military means alone," he said. "There can be no development without security, but there can be no security without development either...