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10 Sep 2006, 5:35 pm
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29 Aug 2006, 1:47 pm
I guess I will stop calling pommes frites "freedom fries" now.I have two very charming French friends in particular, who recently introduced me to the poetry of Jacques Prevert. [read post]
22 Aug 2006, 1:51 pm
The Arizona Supreme Court reassigned longtime Justice of the Peace, Jacque McVay, from the bench August 18, 2006, due to a pending investigation. [read post]
17 Aug 2006, 4:51 am
Here's what Jacques Barzun once said about James and his Principles of Psychology: "The work that James gave to the world in 1890 is an American masterpiece which, quite like Moby Dick, ought to be read from beginning to end at least once by every person professing to be educated. [read post]
13 Jul 2006, 5:20 am
Jacques is clearly right to point to the demise of Doha but it seems unlikely to spell the demise of the WTO, much less globalisation. [read post]
5 Jul 2006, 1:50 pm
[JURIST] Thirty-eight people were convicted of corruption Wednesday for rigging public works contracts to finance political parties while now-French President Jacques Chirac [official profile; BBC profile] was mayor of Paris in the late 1980s and early '90s. [read post]
10 Apr 2006, 7:53 am
[JURIST] Protests continued at 32 of France's 84 universities Monday, despite separate announcements [JURIST report] from French President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin earlier in the day that the section of a recently-enacted law [JURIST document] on equality of opportunity establishing the so-called First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) [JURIST [read post]
9 Apr 2006, 11:20 pm
[JURIST] French President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominque de Villepin said in separate statements Monday in Paris following a morning meeting [JURIST report] that the First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) [JURIST news archive] established in a recent law [JURIST document] would be "replaced" with other measures designed to help young people find work. [read post]
9 Apr 2006, 11:16 am
[JURIST] Changes to the controversial French labor law [JURIST document] establishing the First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) [JURIST news archive] are expected to be announced Monday after an early-morning meeting between President Jacques Chirac [official profile] and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin [official profile]. [read post]
5 Apr 2006, 8:41 am
[JURIST] French union leaders said Wednesday that there is only one "plausible response likely to end the conflict" over the controversial First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) [text, in French] and gave French President Jacques Chirac [official profile] until April 15 to withdraw the law, which allows workers under 26 years old to be fired without cause during the first two [read post]
3 Apr 2006, 2:17 am
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2 Apr 2006, 4:06 am
[JURIST] A controversial French labor law that has prompted strikes and mass demonstrations by students and workers across France was officially published Sunday in France's Journal officiel [official website] gazette after being signed by President Jacques Chirac [official profile]. [read post]
31 Mar 2006, 1:21 pm
[JURIST] French President Jacques Chirac [official profile] said Friday that he will sign the First Employment Contract (CPE) [text], a controversial labor law which, in its current form, includes a provision allowing employers to hire workers under 26 for a conditional two-year period at the end of which they can be dismissed without cause. [read post]
6 Mar 2006, 11:24 am
[JURIST] French President Jacques Chirac [official website in French; BBC profile], German Chancellor Angela Merkel [official website in German; BBC profile], and other conservative European politicians have been meeting in private to discuss plans to revive the European Constitution [official text; JURIST news archive], according to an article [text, in German] in the German newsmagazine Der [read post]
21 Feb 2006, 2:16 am
[JURIST] Jacques Bernard, head of Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council [official website], has fled the country in fear of his life two weeks after heavily disputed elections [JURIST report] returned President Rene Preval [Wikipedia profile] to office. [read post]
26 Jan 2006, 7:14 pm
President Jacques Chirac [official profile] announced [press release] Thursday that he would refer the law [text], passed in February 2005, to France's Constitutional Court [official website] after stating his opposition [ [read post]
5 Dec 2005, 10:40 am
[JURIST] French President Jacques Chirac [official profile] offered apologies [statement, in French] Monday to 13 people who were wrongly convicted of pedophilia and spent 16-39 months in jail. [read post]
25 Nov 2005, 9:58 am
[JURIST] French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy [official profile], widely seen as a leading candidate to replace President Jacques Chirac in 2007, is calling for new crime prevention legislation and affirmative action policies in the wake of widespread rioting [JURIST report] by immigrant youths earlier this months that prompted the French government to declare a state of emergency [JURIST [read post]
14 Nov 2005, 12:06 pm
[JURIST] French President Jacques Chirac [BBC profile] Monday delivered his first televised address [text, in French; translated excerpts] since a recent surge of violence began in France [JURIST news archive] nineteen days ago, promising that justice would be meted out to those responsible for the riots. [read post]
13 Nov 2005, 11:52 pm
Parliament is expected to approve the bill, deemed by French President Jacques Chirac [official profile] to be a "measure of protection and precaution. [read post]
