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...A lexicographer named Jean Pruvot claimed in a recent interview with the news weekly L’Express that he owns 10,000 dictionaries....
...The boycott likens Israel’s conduct in the West Bank – the management of territories won in war – to South African Apartheid (ie a domestic system of de jure segregation), which is not logical....
...Honoré de Balzac and Stendhal are not. Neither is Jules Michelet nor Marcel Proust nor Antoine de Saint-Exupéry nor Jean-Paul Sartre....
...Party leader Jean-François Copé called on UMP members to march; his arch-rival François Fillon urged them to stay at home....
...And Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the presidential candidate of the new Front de Gauche, has run a surprisingly strong campaign, urging confiscation of all income more than 20 times the median....
...Luxembourg’s prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, complained that the agency acted just as he and his colleagues “were about to get things in order”....
...A book recently published in France – L’Organisation Pirate by Rodolphe Durand and Jean-Philippe Vergne, both social scientists at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales – describes piracy as a recurrent...
...Former prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin attacked the policy as part of a “rightward drift”....
...In 2004, Jean-François Amadieu, a sociologist at the Sorbonne, sent out 500 CVs replying to ads for sales jobs in the Paris region....
...Since the autumn, a big seller in France has been Jean-Luc Gréau’s The Treason of the Economists ( Gallimard/Le Débat)....
...the Nouvel Obs article asked, lamenting the absence of a modern-day Jean-Paul Sartre or Raymond Aron. But new battles mean new divisions....
...Mr Sarkozy is reforming the state at a rate that, if continued, would make him the most important French leader since General de Gaulle....
...On the news and politics website, rue89.com, Jean de Maillard, the judge and law professor, wrote: “Community policing is not a cure-all, because you can’t graft local police on to a society that is so sick...
...In the waning days of the French suburban riots in November, the correspondent of De Volkskrant, the Dutch daily, questioned a French criminologist about the cultural assumptions of French policymakers and...
...*Bonjour paresse: De l'art et de la nécessité d'en faire le moins possible en entreprise, Michalon The writer is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard...
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