ft.com - 6/29/2009
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Book cover of 'Au Revoir to All That: The Rise and Fall of French Cuisine' by Michael Steinberger Au Revoir to All That: The Rise and Fall of French Cuisine By Michael Steinberger Bloomsbury £16.99, 256 pages FT Bookshop price: £13.59 The French call it déclinisme , the national propensity for ...
breitbart.com - 6/30/2009
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Al-Qaeda's North Africa wing threatened on Tuesday to
take revenge on France for its opposition to the...
burka, calling on Muslims to retaliate against the country, the US monitoring service SITE Intelligence reported. Earlier this month, President ...
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Qaeda warns France of revenge for burka stance
news.yahoo.com - 6/22/2009
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PARIS President Nicolas Sarkozy said the Muslim burqa
would not be welcome in France , calling the...
full-body religious gown a sign of the "debasement" of women. In the first presidential address to parliament in 136 years, Sarkozy faced critics who ...
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Sarkozy says burqas are 'not welcome' in France - Yahoo! ...
weeklystandard.com - 6/30/2009
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In the course of Donald Morrison's review of
Au Revoir to All That by Michael Steinberger, we...
learn that McDonald's is the largest private employer in all of France, which is sort of like being the largest provider of health insurance in North Korea, ...
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An American Triumph
Weekly Standard Blog —
... In the course of Donald Morrison's review of Au Revoir to All That by Michael Steinberger, we learn that McDonald's is the largest private employer in all of France, which is sort of like being the largest provider of health insurance in North Korea, but nonetheless, it feels like a major triumph for American culture and cuisine. I once ate at the McDonald's right next to the Arc de Triomphe. My quarter pounder tasted like hegemony. ...
RE: 'How McDonald's Conquered France'
The Corner on National Review Online —
... : In the course of Donald Morrison's review of Au Revoir to All That by Michael Steinberger, we learn that McDonald's is the largest private employer in all of France, which is sort of like being the largest provider of health insurance in North Korea, but nonetheless, it feels like a major triumph for American culture and cuisine. I once ate at the McDonald's right next to the Arc de Triomphe. My quarter pounder tasted like hegemony. ...
Michael Goldfarb Embraces Soft Power
Matthew Yglesias —
... In the course of Donald Morrison’s review of Au Revoir to All That by Michael Steinberger, we learn that McDonald’s is the largest private employer in all of France, which is sort of like being the largest provider of health insurance in North Korea, but nonetheless, it feels like a major triumph for American culture and cuisine. I once ate at the McDonald’s right next to the Arc de Triomphe. My quarter pounder tasted like hegemony. ...
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