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...hear the relationship between Poles and their host countries described in such friendly terms. In 2005, Philippe de Villiers, leader of France's Euro-skeptic Mouvement pour la France, darkly warned of the "Polish plumber and Estonian architect" triggering "the demolition of France's social and economic model." Before the E.U. admitted 10 new members back in 2004, populist fears of unwashed hordes stealing jobs from local workers led most of the old E.U. countries, including Germany, Austria and France, to keep their labor markets closed...
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin wasn't too happy when his 20-year-old daughter Marie packed in her college studies to become a model. Luckily for Mlle Steiss (the pseudonym Villepin uses to conceal her political pedigree), the gamble soon paid off. She is the new face of Givenchy perfume and her billboard campaign hits the U.S. in April. And she's not the only prime ministerial offspring to choose a more glamorous route to success than politics...
...that it exercised on the poet Rainer Maria Rilke at the Paris Salon in 1907. "The knowledge of its existence has transformed into an elation that I feel even in my sleep," Rilke wrote to his wife. The subject of the painting is Hortense Fiquet, Cézanne's model, who had a long secret relationship with him before becoming his wife. Another first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, chose the watery landscape House on the Marne (1888-90) to hang in the Yellow Oval Room, used to greet heads of state visiting the White House...
...Patrick has wisely allocated approximately $11 million in his state budget to making the vaccine available to all girls in the state between the ages of nine and 18. In doing so, he has broken down the financial barriers that might prevent some girls from obtaining the vaccine. This model of allowing each individual to decide whether to vaccinate should be followed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has erred in requiring the vaccination of schoolgirls ages 11 to 12. Perry’s policy intrudes on individual autonomy. Most vaccinations that are required of all children that attend public...
...Harvard House system, based so closely on the Oxford-Cambridge model, conspicuously lacks one luxury: While Kings College, Cambridge has a wine cellar rumored to contain tens of thousands of bottles, Harvard’s Houses have remained cellar-less. Nevertheless, devotion to that “bottled poetry”—written of by Robert Louis Stevenson—runs deep among both undergraduates and professors...