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...project has also come under criticism from Jean-Noël Jeanneney, president of the French national library, who has already digitized 80,000 volumes of the French library. He said the Google project would inevitably be biased in favor of English language and Anglo-Saxon publications. Jeanneney’s complaints were reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this month...
...government worries that trying alleged rpf crimes alongside those of people like Ntirushwamaboko will bolster claims that the Tutsi, too, committed genocide. That troubles some outside observers. "If you give justice only to one group of people, I'm not sure that will have a reconciliatory effect," says Jean-Charles Paras, head of the Rwandan mission for Penal Reform International. "Quite the contrary, actually." Another flaw, say critics, is the reliance on confessions. In many cases, the perpetrators are the only living witnesses to their crimes. The promise of a lighter sentence could be an incentive to implicate others, sometimes...
Deficit Mending Last week, during negotiations among E.U. Finance Ministers, Luxembourg 's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker sounded like a calculus professor who'd run out of blackboard space. He's struggling with a difficult problem: how to revamp the stability and growth pact - the much-violated E.U. doctrine designed to govern fiscal rectitude - a task that falls to Juncker while his country holds the rotating E.U. presidency. The pact caps euro-zone countries' deficits at 3% of GDP; Germany and France want to change the rules on what spending gets counted in deficit calculations. Germany, for example, wants...
...scandal over subsidized housing. Breton's annual salary drops to €140,000 from €1.4 million. He also waived a €2.3 million severance package and had to resign all his French directorships. Why bother? Friends say he has political aspirations and is close to Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. Some worry about a potential conflict of interest, as the Ministry oversees the telecommunications industry. There is, though, a silver lining: the 11,000 France Télécom shares Breton got in 2002 on joining the company had more than doubled in value by the time...
...forget the food. Bank Jean Georges at the Hotel Icon, a lavishly restored former bank, sits less than two blocks from Preston Station on the Metrorail. Part of the culinary empire of chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, the restaurant is a temple to gorgeous, delicious food. Golden, ruby red and candy-striped beets brighten a simple salad; Texas blue crabs star in a sublime crab cake. For a more casual, festive evening, try Bossa, near the Main Street Square stop, which offers zesty pan-Latin fare and has a hopping bar scene. Afterward, stride down the block and across the street...