Jane Camblin, the head of the French American International School will celebrate the Hayes Valley institution’s 50th anniversary Feb. 10-11 with an alumni reunion and public lectures by artists, writers and distinguished alumni.
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Some 57 percent of French people polled said they believe International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn — accused of sexually assaulting a New York City hotel worker — is innocent and has been framed in a conspiracy. A widely popular Socialist politician who was preparing to run for the presidency next year, Strauss-Kahn, 62, has long been known as a self-proclaimed womanizer. He is currently being held without bail in Rikers Island prison.
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Just when you think you’ve reached maximum possible cynicism about politics, you discover that, actually, you haven’t been cynical enough. We got dragged into Libya by our NATO allies, who aren’t competent to run a proper air war against a crumbling Third-World autocracy and are now complaining that we’re not doing more to bail them out.
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France’s riot police are threatening to strike over a new ban against drinking on duty. Public uproar at photos of riot police drinking bottles of beer and wine while wearing body armor and carrying weapons during a Paris street protest made police chiefs decide to end the tradition. “Nobody should object to a small drink on jobs … Our members are very unhappy at being treated like children,” said Didier Mangione, national secretary of the police union.
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It’s standard practice for newspaper reporters to quote “the man in the street”—ordinary individuals whose personal experiences are examples of the practical results of larger political or economic developments. But how typical are these persons in the street?
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Moammar Gadhafi’s security forces are dressing like civilians and driving civilian vehicles attempting to adapt their fighting to avert NATO air-strikes, according to NATO officials and reports from the region.
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One thing on which there seems to have been agreement during the month-long debate about how the United States should respond to the uprisings in the Middle East, and in particular to the anti-Gaddafi rebels in Libya, is that we must not act unilaterally.
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The U.S. controls the most powerful military force in the history of Earth. Its military dominates the globe and has troops operating in over 150 different nations. And the scope of this strength is not lost upon our civilian leaders.
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Barack Obama, like all American politicians, likes to portray himself as future-oriented and open to technological progress. Yet the vision he set out in his State of the Union address is oddly antique and disturbingly static.
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“There are some lucky persons who succeed in everything, and there are some lucky nations with whom everything turns out well, even those events which seemed about to bury them in ruins. The United States is one of these privileged communities…It may be checked in its career for a time by the present crisis, but it will come out of it safe and sound, and more healthy than when it entered it.”
Quick - which Frenchman said this?
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