Word: jeaned
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...that the portly 48-year-old is also a decidedly un-Gallic lawyer from the central Indian city of Bhopal. Nevertheless, according to the book Le Rajah de Bourbon, published last week by European blueblood Prince Michael of Greece (a Bourbon scion himself), Balthazar is a direct descendant of Jean de Bourbon, a swashbuckling nephew of Henri IV who joined the court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1560. While Jean's progeny faded into obscurity in the East, Henri IV's ruled France for centuries until the guillotine ended the Bourbon line at Louis XVI in 1793. Now, Prince...
...Jean-Cyrill Spinetta recalls the dark days of 1997 when he took command of financially strapped Air France, charged with pulling the airline out of a tailspin of labor unrest and a half-decade of losses. A growing number of French customers, long accustomed to work stoppages, viewed the airline with distrust and scorn. "When people start looking at their own flag carrier as unreliable, you've really got a problem," says Spinetta...
...spectre of Snoop Dogg, of Springfest, and of Wyclef Jean that kept the UC from shelling out the cash to pay for your morning paper. And it’s not because of any particular dislike for the daily news, either; the UC is one of the most risk-averse organizations at Harvard...
...reality is somewhat less dramatic. Piaf was actually born in Paris' Tenon Hospital, according to her biographer, Jean-Dominique Brierre. She grew up poor but was never blind, though she did have an inflamed cornea that was cured by ordinary medical treatment. She was also cleared of any involvement in Leplée's death. "Piaf didn't invent these myths," says Brierre, "but she knew it wouldn't harm her image to let certain rumors lie. With the facts skewed, her life was like a character in a novel - a romantic novel full of mythical relationships. I think this...
...place where, once I accepted my identity and responsibilities as a French citizen, I wasn't expected to do something with a broom in my hand, or a ball between my feet." It would be ironic - and a bitter indictment of France's mainstream political parties - if it took Jean-Marie Le Pen to get such a message across to voters who are yearning to hear...