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Next Sunday, as we wander out of our village churches after the Mass (while shaking hands with Monsieur le curé and expressing admiration f...

When he started to talk surprisingly about a conspiracy theory, Dominique Strauss-Kahn went fishing, for reasons that were not apparent. We...

Throughout the coming week, we can expect some spectacular fireworks (akin to the final five minutes in a yet-undecided rugby match) as Nico...

The erotic operation that English-speaking people designate curiously as blowing is generally looked upon, in France, as sucking . I...

No sooner had Nafissatou Diallo left the office of Manhattan District attorney Cyrus Vance , who revealed that he intended to dismiss charg...

The term "Mermaid" is used as a nickname for Tripoli. So, the offensive launched by Libyan freedom fighters last Saturday evening,...

When I was a 14-year-old kid hanging around in the rough competitive-cycling environment of my native Grafton and Coffs Harbour, the very id...

To stigmatize an annoyance that's too fuzzy to be pinned down, colloquial English has retained a marvelous but illogical expression: a p...

The casting, up until now, has been superb. At the center, the villain is a prosperous and powerful French Jew, operating in the sphere of i...

Bernard-Henri Lévy (often referred to as BHL) is a brilliant French intellectual who has played a political role in several international c...

This photo reappeared this morning on the website of Le Parisien , alongside an article by Jean-Marc Ducos revealing the "doubts"...

I know little about typical values and attitudes within the US legal system, but I've always had the impression that they don't like...

Last night, on France's national TV news, Kenneth Thompson , the US lawyer representing Nafissatou Diallo , launched an appeal for facts...

Today, people in France have been looking at photos of the New York residence where Dominique Strauss-Kahn —widely imagined, up until recent...

In my blog post of 16 May 2011 concerning the DSK affair [ display ] , I said that I " smell a rat ". I was incapable, though, of ...

This fabulous photo shows the prestigious US lawyer Benjamin Brafman saying " Shut up " to his bowed client, Dominique Strauss-K...

We've been shocked, this morning, by videos of Dominique Strauss-Kahn in handcuffs. In France, it would be totally illegal to publish s...

Many people in France are in a state of shock after learning today at dawn (French time) that Dominique Strauss-Kahn —the brilliant French e...

Today, the G20 leaders, assembled in London, decided to enable the International Monetary Fund to distribute an astronomical amount of mone...