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...Take England-born Sophie Giraud, a 39-year-old marketing executive in Lyon, for instance. French officials insisted that she obtain official birth certificates for several family members, which they said the government should accept as proof of their citizenship - and, by extension, hers. "I had my expired passport, my identity card and proof of my parents' nationality before their eyes, and they didn't hesitate to become more absurd by asking for proof of my grandparents' citizenship," says Giraud, who had planned a trip abroad and ended up obtaining a British passport by mail in a week...
...CONVICTED. 43 of 47 defendants in France's biggest corruption trial, including former ministers MICHEL ROUSSIN, 66, MICHEL GIRAUD, 76, and GUY DRUT, 54, who is also a member of the International Olympic Committee; in Paris. Punishments ranged from fines to suspended jail sentences for involvement in a public-works scam that took kickbacks worth more than $80 million to renovate Parisian schools. Several of the defendants were allies of President Jacques Chirac, who was mayor of Paris at the time; he was protected from giving evidence by presidential immunity...
...Angeles, the newly opened Bastide restaurant of chef Alain Giraud has only tasting menus at dinner. In New York City, chef Gerry Hayden divides the menu at his chic Amuse into $5, $10, $15 and $20 columns so diners can customize their meals to suit their tastes--and wallets. In Chicago, there's newcomer Piattini ("small plates," in Italian). Mantis in Washington, which features pan-Asian tapas, recently opened its doors, and on the Strip in Las Vegas, the restaurant Prana has been offering Southeast Asian small plates to hungry gamblers since May. In Atlanta, there's a twist: trendy...
...Fiction and Fantasy," the visitor will find that a comic strip genre popular in nearly every country except, for whatever reason, the United States. Here you'll see the original incarnation of "Barbarella" in Jean-Claude Forest's slinky black-and-white panels and the classic work of Jean Giraud, a master of the realist style known to science-fiction comics readers throughout Europe and the United States by the pseudonym Moebius...
STORY OF WOMEN. In 1943 the Vichy government of France condemned Marie-Louise Giraud to the guillotine for the crime of performing abortions. In this eloquent work, Marie (Isabelle Huppert) is neither a monster nor a savior, but a microcosm of her amoral country...