Word: jacquese
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A day after Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau announced his resignation over barely losing the secession referendum, it looks as though Canada may soon be dealing with an even more formidable separatist. Leaders of the Parti Quebecois are already trying to revive their push for secession under the banner of Lucien...
NEVER BEFORE IN HISTORY HAS THERE BEEN A gathering like it. This week leaders from most of the countries in the world convene to celebrate the United Nations' 50th anniversary. The proceedings began on Sunday when 191 leaders and other officials--representing enemies, allies and everything in between--stood side...
Thumbing its nose at near-unanimous international condemnation, France set off a third nuclear blast beneath the Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia about 6 p.m. ET. "This test was necessary to guarantee in the future the security and reliability of our arms," the French Defense Ministry said in a statement...
Boris Yeltsin has been hospitalized with an apparent heart attack for the second time in four months. Although dogged by persistent health problems, the 64-year-old Russian President had appeared fitter in recent weeks, enough so to challenge French President Jacques Chirac to a tennis match. "Considering that Yeltsin...
BLAME IT ALL ON JEAN-JACQUES Rousseau, whose Confessions shocked 18th century France with its author's admissions of sexual masochism and other private deviancies. The great philosopher didn't just help start the French Revolution with his writings; he ushered in a publishing genre--the confessional memoir. More than...