The Class: Inside the Walls of French Education
The Class, despite its intentions to show dynamic pedagogy at work, reveals its the opposite: how "learning" in France consists of accumulating "facts."
The Class, despite its intentions to show dynamic pedagogy at work, reveals its the opposite: how "learning" in France consists of accumulating "facts."
Max Keiser | Posted 07.05.2008 | Business
I was on France24 Friday talking about oil, the dollar, and gold. part 2 Key to the rise in oil and gold prices is what I call 'monetary extre...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Back in May, President Bush traveled to Israel's Knesset to deliver a speech that equated negotiations with modern terror-sponsoring states to World W...
Melbourne Herald Sun | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Nearly 90 per cent of Chinese respondents to an online survey said they oppose French President Nicolas Sarkozy's attendance at the Beijing Olympics, ...
Huffington Post via The Guardian | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has become an internet sensation in France after this video of him snapping angrily at his staff while preparing for ...
AP | JOHN LEICESTER | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy, apparently backing off a boycott threat, said Monday he could attend the opening of the Beijing Olympi...
AP | STEVE WEIZMAN | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
JERUSALEM — French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday there could be no Mideast peace unless Israel drops its refusal to cede sovereignty ove...
Mia Farrow | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics
Who threw their full support to the International Criminal Court in its attempts to finally bring a measure of justice to Darfur's people? The United States? France? England? Nope.
Hossein Derakhshan | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
The world of Persepolis is divided into two very separate groups: you are either with Marjane, or you are against her.This is not much different from Bush's and Sarkozy's official line on Iran.
Jessica Wakeman | Posted 04.16.2008 | Life
French women are more restrained -- tasteful -- in their fashion, we are told. But, America is a country of commercial beauty -- nipping and tucking and makeover shows with product placements galore.
AP | Posted 04.11.2008 | Home
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AP | Michel Compte | Posted 03.26.2008 | Entertainment
PARIS — A nude photo of France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy will be auctioned off at a sale next month in New York City, an auction house sa...
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 03.26.2008 | Media
Sarkozy's track record of antagonism towards journalists, as well as documented public tantrums and insults, are not easily swept under the rug.
Lauren Elkin | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics
Has Bush's idiocy lowered the bar for presidential behavior -- in France?
Elizabeth Bard | Posted 03.04.2008 | Life
In France, the Salon d'Agriculture is a huge event -- imagine fashion week, but with fuzzier chicks.
Linda Keenan | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
When I first read that Sarkozy wanted every French fifth-grader to learn about a child-victim of the Holocaust, I immediately thought, oh no.
New York Times | ELAINE SCIOLINO | Posted 02.16.2008 | Home
President Nicolas Sarkozy dropped an intellectual bombshell this week, surprising the nation and touching off waves of protest with his revision of th...
Telegraph | Posted 02.15.2008 | Entertainment
The UK Telegraph has a long interview with Bond Girl Eva Green, the French actress who first became famous for her full frontal sex scenes in "The Dre...
Joan Z. Shore | Posted 02.13.2008 | Life
Madame Bovary, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Edith Piaf, have embodied the passion and pathos of Love (capital L). Carla, an ex-model and pop singer, does not, and neither does Sarko.
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 02.11.2008 | Media
Sarkozy has pulled the plug on the foreign language broadcasts of France 24, the all-news satellite channel launched with much fanfare in December 2006 by Jacques Chirac.
Reuters Via NYT | Posted 02.06.2008 | Business
A French court ordered the budget airline Ryanair on Tuesday to pay damages to President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife, Carla Bruni, left, for usin...
AP | ANGELA DOLAND | Posted 02.02.2008 | Politics
French President Nicolas Sarkozy married former model Carla Bruni on Saturday at the Elysee Palace, according to the official who performed the ceremo...
New York Times | http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/business/worldbusiness/30bank.html?ex=1359435600&en=78aa270f64137b8a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss | Posted 01.30.2008 | Business
Senior politicians here increased calls for the resignation of top executives at Société Générale, ahead of the board's regular meeting, scheduled...
Huffington Post | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics
Former supermodel Carla Bruni is not shying away from exposing her tummy as rumors swirl about whether she is pregnant with French president Nicolas S...
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 01.18.2008 | Media
French citizens are griping about media coverage of their president's love life, reports of his third marriage, their leader's "scandalous" in-your-face public behavior and a cost of living galloping.
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Karin Badt | Posted 07.10.2008 | Entertainment