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...apprenticeship program was launched under the direction of Gérard Houllier - a former French national coach who currently manages a resuscitated and rejuvenated Liverpool club. The program is built on seven regional training centers, where young players scouted and recruited from small youth clubs and FFF-organized tournaments follow normal educational programs supplemented with daily training in football technique. The best players from regional centers are periodically called to the INF camp near Paris for higher-level instruction with national team coaches. On the weekends, the players return to their local clubs for their league games. "This system doesn...
...roof. The Billodes factory, which opened in Le Locle in 1865, was among these precursors. But as the peasant-craftsmen became factory workers, a new means of passing on their specialized know-how became necessary. "It's the factories that created the modern training system," says Gérard Triponez, director of the college in Le Locle. "Before then, craftsmen would train a couple of apprentices themselves. But the new industrial organization created a need for more highly qualified personnel." Le Locle's school of watchmaking first opened its doors in 1886 and moved into its current premises...
...office success who prefers 400-seat theaters to megabudget films, the high-school dropout who knows all the great French literary classics by heart, the 21st-century movie star whose greatest passion is reciting the works of long-dead writers. If Gérard Depardieu is France's best-known actor today, Luchini is perhaps the most interesting...
...disgust over the Gaullist "system." After Chirac replaced Tiberi with Philippe Séguin as the rpr's official candidate, the disavowed mayor decided to run as an independent and split the conservative vote. In Lyons, similar divisions on the right handed a narrow victory to Socialist Gérard Collomb, giving the left control of France's third-largest city for the first time in almost a century...
...Both PVRs and video-on-demand allow for that personal touch. Would you like to see Penélope Cruz or Gérard Depardieu? Do you prefer dramas or comedies? Just select your favorite actors and film genre on your TV's "personal screen," and all the programs matching those keywords will be automatically recorded...