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...history ... a decrepit old boy saying ... 'Did you know I came, I saw and I conquered?'" Ba-da-bum. O.K., it might not generate the laughs author Mark Steel gets in his stand-up routine, but that's not what he's trying to do in his new book, Vive La Revolution: A Stand-Up History of the French Revolution. Rather than regale readers with jokes, Steel aims to present the history of a serious subject leavened with irreverent observations and quirky tidbits. Infused with an unabashedly political viewpoint, it's a surprisingly informative read. Sure, the airwaves are awash...
...Vive la France!" declared George W. Bush in an interview with French television as the President and his entourage rolled into Europe last week. Like most of those attending the European summits with Bush - in Krakow, St. Petersburg, and at the G-8 in Evian - the Americans were playing down differences and talking up the need for greater transatlantic cooperation. Washington's goal: to allay European fears that victory in Iraq will tempt the U.S. to run roughshod over world opinion. "It isn't the power of the U.S. that needs to be checked," cooed Bush's national security adviser...
...described themselves as “The Organization To Defend America,” also had to face a counter-protest of about ten “anti-anti-French” demonstrators who began passing out pictures of the Statue of Liberty and shouting “Vive la France! Vive le Council de Securite!” before the anti-French rally had even begun...
...Sweet Home involve around 80 employees. But some are impressed. "I was surprised to see how many solid and savvy business partners were already here," says Olivier Zelphati, returning after eight stateside years to start his own bio-biz. "It's got virtually all California has." Plus the Mediterranean. Vive la Sickie! Workaholics they're not, but a new study by the U.K.'s Trades Union Congress says British employees do have an addiction that cost the economy €3.37 billion last year. Some 14.8 million workdays are lost annually because of alcohol-related illness or workers pulling "sickies" after...
EUROBLUES Vive le Déficit With nary a whimper, Germany joined 14 other E.U. members to approve disciplinary measures for its own violation of the Stability and Growth Pact, which limits deficits to 3% of GDP. But when the E.U. warned France for an expected 2.9% deficit this year, Finance Minister Francis Mer said au contraire, "we will climb the mountain at our own rhythm." Mer was rebuked by E.U. Commissioner Pedro Solbes, and by week's end, the French resistance seemed to be cracking. Mer vowed to use reserve funds to keep deficits down. But unless France reins...