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John F. Kerry embraces Europe
WASHINGTON -- When John Kerry’s political foes complained in 2004 that he “looked French” and ordered Swiss cheese on his Philadelphia cheese steaks, the Democratic presidential nominee began keeping his affinities for Europe bien...
Tags: Mitt Romney, John Kerry, Ernest Hemingway, Berlin (Germany), Paris (France)
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn fails to block mistress' veiled memoir
No stranger to scandal, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund head, has failed in his attempt to get a court in Paris to ban an upcoming veiled memoir by a former mistress, the Guardian reports. Strauss-Kahn, who resigned in...
Tags: Authors, Book, Adultery, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, International Monetary Fund
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The Week in Pictures | February 18 – 24
FrameworkEach week we bring you the very best in visual journalism. Lakers greats past and present showed up to remember the team's owner, Dr. Jerry Buss, who died Monday from liver failure. Former coach Phil Jackson fought back tears, Shaquille O'Neal recalls... -
France says it won't negotiate to free kidnapped family
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The stakes are high for France: the lives of four French children, their parents, a relative and nine other French hostages being held by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Nigeria and Mali. But France, entrenched in a war in...
Tags: Entertainment, Al-Qaeda, Cameroon, Mali, Polio
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Oscars 2013: 'Amour' wins for foreign language film
As the French might say, the victory of "Amour" for foreign language film at the Oscars on Sunday was practically a fait accompli. Pourquoi, you ask? Well, Michael Haneke's beautiful, elegiac film about a sudden crisis threatening an octogenarian...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon (movie), Golden Globe Awards
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Survey: U.S. medical costs top other developed nations'
An average day in a U.S. hospital cost $4,287 last year. It was less than $1,000 in New Zealand, France, South Africa and Spain. That's one of several cost comparisons reported Tuesday in an annual report by the International Federation of Health Plans,...
Tags: Knee Replacement, Prescription Drugs, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Matt Mattox dies at 91; master Hollywood dancer and choreographer
Hollywood considered Matt Mattox one of the best dancers in the country when he was cast to dizzying effect in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," the 1954 Oscar-winning film celebrated for its imaginative and masterful dance moves. Billed as one of...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Jerome Robbins, Radford (Radford, Virginia), Everest
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City of Lights, City of Angels French film fest books 38 features
The 17th City of Lights, City of Angels French film festival announced its most ambitious slate to date Tuesday with 38 feature films and 19 shorts. Of the 38 features, three are international premieres, 11 are North American or U.S. premieres and 16...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Bérénice Bejo , Romain Duris, Daniele Thompson
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Accused killer tried to sell stained rug, witness says
A man charged with the cold-case murder of his San Marino landlady's adult son in the mid-1980s tried to sell an Oriental rug that appeared to have a bloodstain on it around the time the victim and his wife disappeared, witnesses testified Tuesday....
Tags: Prosecution, Clark Rockefeller, Literature, Witnesses, Arts and Culture
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Police battle same-sex marriage foes in Paris
PARIS — French riot police battled Sunday with anti-gay marriage protesters who forced their way onto the world famous Champs Élysées. The demonstration was a last-ditch attempt to stop a bill backed by France's Socialist government that will...
Tags: Politics, Same-Sex Marriage, Family, Paris (France), Gays and Lesbians
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France confirms death of Al-Qaida chief Abou Zeid
The death of a top Al Qaida-linked warlord in combat with French-led troops represents a victory in the battle against jihadists who had a stranglehold on northern Mali. But it is far from the defining blow against a wily enemy that can go underground...
Tags: North Africa, Algeria, Religious Conflicts, Mali, Francois Hollande
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U.S. tire magnate blasts France's 'so-called workers'
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.PARIS -- An incredulous -- and insulting -- letter from an American capitalist to a Socialist government minister in France has revealed a monumental clash of cultures. Tire magnate Maurice "Morry" Taylor Jr., head of Titan International, did not hold...Tags: Michelin Group, Politics, Employees, India, Robin Hood
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