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You can't have Entrepreneurs if you don't have a word for it
Some on this forum keep leaping to the support of a Mr. George Bush (President, Commander-in-Chief, all round "good-guy"
. Presumably to show his educational level and feelings towards the French a famous quote of his (that may not have been reported on by pro-Bush press in the US) is:
"The trouble with the French is that they have no word for Entrepreneur". This was a dead serious statement he made (i.e. not a joke).
For those who think America gives outstanding foreign aid
I found the following in the NY Times. I knew much of it, but here is a nice summary of why there is terrorism in the world and why what we are doing will not work. So many Americans think we spend an inordinate amount on foreign aid without out looking at what and where. We spend it where we think we will gain the most from it. That’s not charity. Spending it where it is most needed is charity. It also elucidates promises broken.
It’s a very interesting article.
French journalists freed in Iraq
The French foreign ministry confirmed an Arabic TV
report that the two men had been set free and said they would return to
France on Wednesday.
They were abducted while driving to the city of Najaf and appeared on a video released in October by their captors.
Their captors said they had been freed because of France’s anti-war stance.
French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier is leaving Paris to bring them back.
President Jacques Chirac has announced he is cutting
short a holiday in Morocco to greet the two men on their return to
France, the French news agency AFP reports.
Your take on this
I found some thing that is intreeging.I wanted to share it with you all.Please know this dos not reflect my personal beleves or reflect my feelings a bout france or eroupe.Just some thing i found and wanted to get your take on this and your opionons.
By Steven Stalinsky
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 20, 2004
Over the past few years, France has won the reputation as being the leading anti-American voice of the Western world. Of late, news has been trickling out of France which suggests that President Chirac has taken his opposition to the U.S. to a new level. One example includes allowing the pro-Ba’th pro-Saddam group "La Resistance" to operate out of Paris. The group’s main goal is to support killing U.S. troops in Iraq.
Technology (not so serious)
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300o C. The Russians used a pencil.
Je chere les correspondonts francais!
Bonjour!
I’m new to France.com and I would really like a male and female penpal from France about my age (15-16).
Je m?appelle Charlie et je suis un garçon anglais. Je m’intéresse à France et j’étude le français à mon école. Je l’espère étudier au collège. J?adore les langues et autres pays! Je voudrais écrier avec mon correspondant par e-mail, mais quelquefois je voudrais envoyer et recevoir les lettres! J?ai MSN aussi.
Sorry my French isn?t very good! I would really like to practice it and I can help with English!
I hope to hear from people soon!
À bientôt!
Freak storms kill six in France
Tens of thousands of homes have been left without electricity.
The storm hit Paris without warning and lasted only a few minutes, but caused havoc there and across the north.
The storm caused delays at airports in Paris and brought some train services to a halt. The Eiffel Tower, parks and other outdoor facilities were closed.
The gusts of up to 130 km/h (80 mph) prompted the French national weather service, Meteo France, to issue its second-highest alert and warning against people using their cars, says the AFP news agency.
France shows off tallest bridge
The Millau bridge over the River Tarn in the Massif Central mountains is more than 300m (984ft) high – taller even than the country’s Eiffel Tower.
The bridge, which opens to traffic on Thursday, was built to clear summer traffic jams around the town.
The BBC’s Paris correspondent, Caroline Wyatt, says the bridge is one of the most breathtaking ever built.
She says that with its concrete and steel pillars soaring high above the morning fog in the Tarn Valley, the construction makes a spectacular sight.
‘Delicacy of a butterfly’
Seven slender piers support the roadway, rising into seven graceful pylons bound to the bridge with what look like cobwebs of steel, our correspondent says.
GW's reaction to Arafat's death
I don’t know what coverage the US News and Press gave Mr. Bush’s reaction to Arafat’s death, but news programs in Europe showed that film from when Mr. Bush was first told about it (at a new conference) and showed it many times. Reporter: "Mr. Bush, Arafat is dead". Response from Mr. Bush "Good". Unfortunately that sort of comment sends a very clear indication as to the sort of person the US has a president.
Mr. Bush seems to have no concern about what the world (outside the US) thinks of him. The rest of the world is of secondary importance. I think it a naive view as Americas prosperity is dependant on the rest of the world and vice versa.