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As a 20-something Englishwoman who has lived in Paris, I thought your article missed a vital point. I had never thought twice about wearing a low-cut top in my home town, but when I moved to Paris I began to copy the demure style of Parisiennes. To ascribe...
Prudish? Moi? Re your article "Postcard: Paris" I suspect that there is a more sinister reason for young French women's reluctance to bare their flesh [Aug. 10]. In the 1970s and 1980s, going topless was a way for women to express their liberation and equality with men. Women's...
BYD is far from perfect - a concept car it revealed at the Paris auto show this year had its tires mounted backwards - but it received a boost last fall when American financial wizard Warren Buffett bought 10% of the company for $230 million, a stake that is now worth at...
Why have things gotten so hard for ETA? The weakening of the group is in large part due to a revolutionary change in French attitudes. Until the early 1990s, the French viewed ETA violence as Spain's problem so long as France wasn't attacked. And as a hedge against...
Today, 172 suspected or convicted ETA members are serving time in French prisons, 157 of them Spanish nationals. In Spain itself, there are close to 750 currently in jail. Increased coordination between Paris and Madrid, meanwhile, made things so hot for ETA that its networks started searching for other places...