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20 May 2011, 6:25 pm
Well, I’ll say this — if America becomes more like France, it’ll certainly be worth it to go to the schools that let you join the nomenklatura. [read post]
19 May 2016, 8:57 am
Even if women aren’t being directly harassed like the female politicians in France claim to have been, a roundup of research from the Harvard Business Review showed they are often subject to harsher judgment, higher standards and subconscious biases from both male and female colleagues. [read post]
19 Mar 2011, 5:00 pm
Blogs, news sites, and social media including videos, tweets, etc. have been selected by the Library of Congress, the Biliotheque Nationale de France, Stanford University, and the British Library, and crawled by Archive-It. [read post]
23 Jun 2019, 8:54 am
In the past month, Japan, France, Germany, Switzerland, Iraq, and Oman have quietly conveyed messages between Washington and Tehran in an effort to defuse tensions. [read post]
16 Aug 2017, 2:07 pm
Like France after the liberation, it seemed everyone was suddenly a member of the resistance and nobody was a collaborator. [read post]
1 Feb 2011, 10:13 am
Prime Minister David Cameron, President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel issued a joint UK-France-Germany statement on the situation in Egypt: We urge President Mubarak to embark on a process of transformation which should be reflected in a broad-based government and in free and fair elections. [read post]
5 Mar 2010, 4:13 pm
"The Swiss have a reason to be protective: the financial industry has afforded the small nation an enviably high standard of living, with massive capital inflows propping up its currency (the Swiss franc), making imported goods relatively cheaper.That's why maintaining bank secrecy has effectively been national policy for decades. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 11:35 pm
Agence France-Presse and the Jerusalem Post yesterday reported that an Israeli district court judge has given Yitzak Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir, permission to attend his son's religious circumcision scheduled for Sunday. [read post]
15 May 2023, 7:45 pm
The site is made by Ola and Markus in Sweden, with a lot of help from our friends and colleagues in Italy, Finland, USA, Colombia, Philippines, France and contributors from all over the world. [read post]
4 Mar 2021, 7:52 am
After stirring heated debates about “Islamo-leftism” in universities and meat-free meals in school canteens, France’s ruling party has fallen back on another cause célèbre of the conservative camp: defending a status quo in the French language that is unmistakably sexist.According to French grammar rules, all pronouns, nouns and adjectives carry the gender of the object or person they refer to. [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 2:20 pm
This patent from France's Atomic Energy Commision also teaches functionalization of carbon nanotubes (or nanowires) but for optical rather than chemical sensing. [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 1:51 am
Here is the abstract: The work of French philosopher Alain Badiou has been described as the most powerful alternative yet conceived in France to the various forms of postmodernism that arose after the collapse of the Marxist project. [read post]
6 May 2009, 10:59 pm
In fact, in short commentary in European Voice, IFPI Executive Vice President Frances Moore suggested that the copyright reforms should happen before free trade talks begin. [read post]
14 Nov 2007, 8:15 am
The International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization has informed the United States Patent and Trademark Office, that due to an adjustment in the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar with regard to the Swiss franc, the dollar amount of the international filing fee for international applications filed in the United States Receiving Office will increase, effective 15 November 2007, as follows$1163.00 - International filing fee (first thirty pages) $1080.00 - International… [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 12:59 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Al Arabiya reports (see also BBC and Agence France Press): A Cairo court upholds a three-month jail sentence for Egyptian film star and the Arab world’s most famous comedian, Adel Imam, on charges of insulting Islam, Al Arabiya TV reported on Monday…. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 2:55 am
An excellent video of debate on UK laws of great importance to US copyright owners–the Hargreaves Report (aka the Google Report) and the implementation of certain provisions of the Digital Economy Act that has caused the UK to fall behind France, Germany, and New Zealand. [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 5:39 am
In the political realm, "revanchism" refers to such a theory that intends to seek revenge for a lost territory.There's this illustration, with the caption, "An 1887 painting depicting schoolchildren in France being taught about the province of Alsace-Lorraine, which was lost in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and which is depicted by black coloring on a map of France": [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 7:25 am
I'm reading "France’s mustard shortage fuels drama and panic in grocery stores" (WaPo). [read post]
13 May 2014, 4:05 am
The Forward yesterday reported on allegations made two months ago in France against the Chief Rabbi of Paris (who is now also serving as the interim Chief Rabbi of France) by a woman who claims that the rabbi-- Michel Gugenheim-- was involved in extorting 90,000 Euros (approximately $123,000 US) from her in exchange for her obtaining a get (Jewish divorce document). [read post]
6 Oct 2021, 4:00 am
As reported by CNN, France's Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) yesterday filed its final report:Members of the Catholic clergy in France sexually abused an estimated 216,000 minors over the past seven decades, according to a damning report published Tuesday that said the Church had prioritized the protection of the institution over victims who were urged to stay silent.The number of abused minors rises to an estimated 330,000 when including… [read post]
