Word: les
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...could have any director direct one of your plays who would be it? CME: Off the top of my head, I think Les Waters is a really wonderful director...
...swap business cards at Muslim networking events like Britain's Emerald Network or Holland's Toward a New Start, a group for Moroccans who, in the words of founder Ahmed Larouz, are "the sort of people who say, 'I want to be CEO of Philips.'" Parisian professionals go to Les Dérouilleurs, a networking salon whose name (the Un-Rusty Ones) jabs at the stereotype of les rouilleurs - jobless Maghrebi youth "rusting away" in the banlieues...
...Terdeyet is more confident at work than many Muslims. He's not afraid to speak Arabic on the office phone. He doesn't feign illness when he's fasting for Ramadan, or beg off wine at lunch by claiming a headache. He founded the networking club Les Dérouilleurs because he wanted to prove that "it was possible to be a success in France without abandoning your Islamic principles." There's still a way to go, he says. He's envious of tales from London-based Muslims about company-sanctioned prayer breaks. "Ooh, la la," he says, rolling...
...October 2004, at a campaign rally in Florida, John Kerry noticed an enthusiastic response to his ringing pronouncements about helping Haiti, and in a pander to the Haitians in the audience, switched to French saying: "Je vais aider les Haitiens" (I will help the Haitians). Some French speakers later reported that he sounded like he said, "I will help the States," or "I will help the Chechens." And we translated it as: "I will confirm every stereotype accusing me of being an effete internationalist...
...Smurfs, or Les Schtroumpfs as they were originally called in French, first appeared in October 1958 in the Belgian comic magazine Spirou. They were created by the Brussels-born cartoonist Pierre Culliford - better known as Peyo - and were originally mere supporting cast in his medieval Johan and Pirlouit series...