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...local time, when Nicolas Sarkozy was declared the next President de la Republique, there was a unanimous explosion of joy inside the Alliance Fran?aise. Chanting and dancing, these talented and ambitious young expatriates were celebrating the triumph of the principles of hard work, individuality and merit in a country whose dysfunctional economy had forced them to choose a voluntary exile in order to pursue their career potential. To them, including myself, Sarkozy represents the hope that one day, they will be able to chase their entrepreneurial dreams in the land of their birth...
...Although widely anticipated, Sarkozy's triumph nonetheless elicited an explosion of joy from supporters of his law-and-order, free market-reforming platform aimed at jump-starting France's sluggish economy. "This is a victory for the value of work and merit," exclaimed 19-year-old law student Thierry Bombet as he joined a cheering crowd of 10,000 celebrating Sarkozy's victory in the Place de la Condorde. "France is the only country in the world with a 35-hour work week - that's ridiculous!" agreed 21-year-old engineering student Fabien Pioli against the din of aging rock...
...most successful products, of course, use these thousands of scents in perfumes. In 1996, Estée Lauder's Clinique brand wanted to put joy in a bottle. What does happiness smell like? IFF's smell scientists have been studying the psychological and physiological responses evoked by fragrances since 1983, so they answered that question with research rather than poetry. They blended dozens of scent notes from flowers, herbs, plants and fruits and tried them on hundreds of test subjects. The citrus-heavy perfumes were consistently associated with joy, well-being and, well, happiness. Clinique Happy, which has earned a queen...
...Socialist Party headquarters on the Rue Solferino weren't the expressions of horror and despair heard five years earlier, when the right-wing Jean-Marie Le Pen beat then Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin into the runoff against President Jacques Chirac. This time, the Socialist faithful were yelling out of joy and relief that it was their candidate, Segolene Royal, who would be facing off against conservative rival Nicolas Sarkozy in the May 6 runoff...
...Tarantino movie that Tarantino would be afraid to make. It surely has its quota of Quentinian quirks, including cool bad guys dressed in black, a revenge motif that won't quit, some acts of abuse that would have given de Sade appreciative shivers - and, most important, an expert's joy in expanding and subverting the rules of the genre...