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Among the witnesses to the crash was French President Jacques Chirac, who had just returned from Tokyo on an Air France flight. Chirac's plane had been taxiing toward the terminal but paused to let the Concorde take off. As Chirac and his wife watched the pride of French technology...
Adieu, old chap: Despite his exhaustion, Clinton was in a good mood at this, his last G-8, and often could be seen joking and laughing with his colleagues, with some of whom, like Britain's Tony Blair, France's Jacques Chirac and Germany's Gerhard Schroeder, he's developed...
Want something closer to Okinawa? How about swimming with deadly, poisonous sea snakes? I bet the Japanese have not told Bill (Clinton), Tony (Blair) and Jacques (Chirac) about the incredibly poisonous snakes that swim about the islands of Okinawa. Even more dangerous - Bill, pay particular attention to this - these snakes...
Well, it's tough to go that far. France still has one of Europe's highest tax burdens (45.3% of gross domestic product) and one of its most bloated public sectors (accounting for 1 of every 4 French jobs). The leadership is nothing new either; it consists of Gaullist President...
Another striking aspect of the French renaissance is the rapid development of the New Economy. France was slower off the mark to embrace the digital revolution than the U.S. and some of its European neighbors, but the number of Internet connections has increased fivefold since 1997, and the financing of...