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...list of six candidates, all except Ghali from sub-Saharan nations. He was added almost by chance, to meet France's demand for a French-speaking candidate. In drawing up the list, President Mobutu of Zaire looked about the room, fixed his eye on Ghali and declared, "Vous!" China quickly pledged its support for an African, and France endorsed Ghali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy A Man for All Nations | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...time - Maybe I shouldn't be tellin' you dis - We drinkin' Corona, having a good time. Laissez bontemps rouler! We're, you know, just fine. Dey Border Cafe, laissez me vous dire, you have a good time! I can tell you dat! All dey good people, eatin' and drinkin'! Dey so happy! Make you wanna...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...halfheartedly proposed marriage, but instead they worked out a deal: complete equality between them, complete freedom to have affairs with others, complete honesty about everything. And so, without ever actually sharing an apartment, they lived together for the rest of their lives, always addressing each other with the formal "vous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mandarin and the Thief Simone de Beauvoir: 1908-1986; Jean Genet: 1910-1986 | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Director: Yeah, we're decided all right. I'll take care of everything. Tell the Big Man not to worry, sans detail s'il vous plait. (Turning to the Bag Lady) Excuse me miss, where do you get your political opinions...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Being There | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...Good Shepherd, an order founded in France in 1641 as Sisters of the Refuge to shelter banished women. The order was renamed and internationalized in 1835 under the leadership of Mother, later Saint, Maria Euphrasia, who emphasized gratitude as the basis of the order's faith and works. "Vous avez un coeur fait pour aimer, fait pour etre reconnaissant." (You have a heart created to love and to be grateful.) Theologically, the tenet of gratitude is seen as the opposite of original sin because it grasps God as the source of all that is good. Mary Paul translates this idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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