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Instead of caving in to pressure from her archaeologist father to enter academia, Guinean-born Katoucha (born Katoucha Niane) became one of the world's first African supermodels, hitting the runway for the likes of Christian Lacroix and Yves Saint Laurent and starting her own label. Postfashion, the gracious celebrity used her fame and her horrific experience as a 9-year-old to write a book and speak out against female genital mutilation. Katoucha, who apparently fell from the houseboat she owned in Paris, had been missing since January. Her body was found in the Seine...
...Thursday, government spokesman Laurent Wauquiez confirmed a report in the daily Le Monde that a private consulting firm has been hired to produce quarterly evaluations on how well cabinet members fulfill policy objectives laid out when they assumed office. Reviewing those indicators, Wauquiez explained, will "allow [us] to judge progress made in every area of government activity, [and] evaluate what moves and what doesn't." With those scorecards in hand, French premier François Fillon will meet with his 27 ministers and secretaries of state four times a year to discuss their performance...
...Sarkozy the man has pulverized the institutional president by incarnating democracy of the individual anointed by a show business political class," wrote Libération editor-in-chief Laurent Joffrin just days after Sarkozy's sparked a massive media frenzy with the revelation he's romantically involved with former model and millionaire heiress Carla Bruni. "He's perfectly integrated the oh-so-contemporary culture of reality TV made up of exposing the intimate, of popular speech, and of ferocious competition. The soap opera of his love life displayed on glossy pages is just an illustration of that...
...earthier taste of Montreal, head to Boulevard Saint-Laurent, where the street's character has been forged like a pearl out of constant friction between generations of immigrants, poets, nihilists, students and most recently the inevitable yuppies. The funkiest part, between Rue Sherbrooke and Rue des Pins, is filled with a pungent mix of great restaurants, cafes, food stores, nightclubs and local-designer clothing shops. Continue north past Rue des Pins to Schwartz's Montreal Hebrew Delicatessen, the best place in the Milky Way to sample smoked meat sandwiches (a delicious slice of the pastrami-corned beef food group). Even...
...rated restaurant in New York City, where the average price of a dinner is $129, up 7% from last year. "The clients tell us we can raise our prices even more," he says. At the BLT Steak restaurants in New York City and Washington, chef Laurent Tourondel is serving a $92 rib-eye steak, and he's pretty sure he's holding back. "I could raise it a little bit more" without losing any diners, he says. "I don't think I'm close to that price yet." When Chicago's Alinea raised the price for its Tour, which comprises...