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...Grand Bleu and Léon - and those were years ago. French culture is about intimacy. We French live in a cultural world that is very different from the Americans', so before even beginning to judge ours, please do your homework. Learn French, read our books and our cultural press, see our movies, go to the hundreds of venues in Paris where you can get a taste of the new French sound, and think twice before making such ludicrous assertions - and a fool of yourself. Hélène Bablon, PARIS
...economy boomed even as that of its southern neighbor showed signs of cooling. The engines of Canadian growth are shifting from the traditional heartland, Ontario and Quebec, to the resource-rich regions of the West and Newfoundland. In 2007, some Canadians won. Some lost. Or, as the Canadian Press put it in September: "High Loonie Is Bad for Canadian Pigs, Good for American Lettuce...
That's routine, says Professor Robert Stenger of the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. "Things are different when you are poor," he said, noting that most states will press child support claims on behalf of mothers who are on welfare. Had she not been on aid and not sought child support, the issue of Matthew Sebuliba's paternity probably would not have been raised, Stenger said...
Despite the anger expressed on blogs and in statements to the press, the rest of the country remained calm this week as most prepared for Christmas vacation starting this Friday. Even in San Juan del Sur, where Volz had once lived with Jimenez, American expats reported life as usual and no hostility toward gringos, adding that most people there had already tried to put the Volz case behind them...
...Still, the state interior ministers appear determined to press ahead, portraying themselves as protectors of their citizens from a "threat" and suggesting, in the words of one government statement, that Germany's Nazi past obliges the government "to monitor the development of any extreme groups within its borders - even when the group's members are small in number." Speaking to reporters last week, Ralf Stegner, the interior minister for the state of Schleswig-Holstein, called Scientology a "totalitarian" organization. "They want to break people's will," he said. "That's why we have to fight them." Federal Interior Minister Schaeuble...