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...Back To Work French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin announced a relaxation of the country's controversial 35-hour workweek, lifting the ceiling on annual employee overtime from 180 to 220 hours...
...world market. Our interference in the region has been counterproductive. There will be no scattering of rose petals for Americans, but there will be many more deaths of our troops and of Iraqis too. Show me the moral value in that. Jean Waltrip Rocky Mount, Virginia, U.S. Although many in the media are gloating over what they consider to be the U.S. failure in Iraq, the game is not yet over. The Americans are approaching their objective: to change the basic parameters in the Middle East by introducing democracy. The millions of voters who turned out in Afghanistan...
...world market. Our interference in the region has been counterproductive. There will be no scattering of rose petals for Americans, but there will be many more deaths of our troops and of Iraqis, too. Show me the moral value in that. Jean Waltrip Rocky Mount...
...Plenel, 52, was part of a troika that ran Le Monde with apparent success for a decade. He made his reputation as a hard-nosed reporter. Beginning in the mid-'90s, as an investigative editor, Plenel - along with managing director Jean-Marie Colombani and board chairman Alain Minc - sought to give an aggressive edge to France's most prestigious daily, founded in 1944 as a staid "newspaper of reference." Colombani and Minc brought in outside investors, in the process reducing the staff journalists' longstanding financial control of the paper from a majority to a blocking minority. Plenel led the editorial...
François Truffaut called them "privileged moments": brief shots that offer snapshots of the soul in a glance or caress. A Very Long Engagement, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's first film since the immensely popular and affecting Amélie, is full of those moments. In adapting Sébastien Japrisot's novel set in World War I and its chaotic aftermath, Jeunet and writer Guillaume Laurant have taken virtually the whole book and thrown it onscreen at a breathless, speed-reading pace. A fabulous image will appear, hurtle into your busy brain, then give way to the next...