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Parents plan Web broadcast for disabled daughter

Diagnosed with severe cerebral palsy, 32-year-old Anne Lamic spends her days in southeastern France mostly in bed, surrounded by stuffed animals and dolls. She cannot speak or walk, and she sometimes has seizures. Now, Lamic's parents are ...

From ANGELA DOLAND, eTaiwan News,  6 Nov 2009

France plans to cut powerful judges down to size

France's investigating judges are a powerful lot: They can order phone taps and home searches, interrogate terrorists and bring down politicians. Now, one has even ordered former French President Jacques Chirac to stand trial. Those sweeping ...

From ANGELA DOLAND, Taiwan News,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jacques Chirac,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  Dominique de Villepin

Anthropology giant Claude Levi-Strauss dead at 100

PARIS—After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or tobacco. The sensory awakening was the start of a journey that turned a young Parisian scholar into a founder ...

From ANGELA DOLAND, Boston Globe,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nicolas Sarkozy,  Koichiro Matsuura,  UNESCO,  New York Public Library

French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss dies

Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100. The French intellectual was regarded as having reshaped ...

From ANGELA DOLAND, Taiwan News,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University

Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss dead at 100

28, 1908, in Brussels, Belgium, Levi-Strauss was the son of French parents of Jewish origin. He studied in Paris and went on to teach in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and conduct much of the research that led to his breakthrough books in the South American giant. ...

From ANGELA DOLAND ASSOCIATED PRESS, The San Jose Mercury News,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nicolas Sarkozy,  Bernard Kouchner,  Harvard University

A kidnapping revives a French legal battle

The 74-year-old German man was snatched, beaten, tied up, whisked across the border and left outside a French courthouse in the middle of the night. Now, a grieving French father has been handed preliminary charges for alleged involvement in the ...

From ANGELA DOLAND, eTaiwan News,  21 Oct 2009

1788 cognac, 1875 wine on sale at Paris auction

offered sheepskin blankets for the chill: 14 degrees Celsius (57.2 Fahrenheit) this week, but dipping to 12 degrees Celsius (53.6 Fahrenheit) in winter. PARIS — Over the years, the chief sommelier had forgotten they were there. And when the four ...

From ANGELA DOLAND ASSOCIATED PRESS, The San Jose Mercury News,  16 Oct 2009

Paris restaurant to auction 1788 cognac, 1875 wine

O ver the years, the chief sommelier had forgotten they were there. And when the four bottles of 1875 Armagnac Vieux were finally unearthed from the labyrinthine wine cellar this week, they were covered in a black fungus that looked like matted cat fur. ...

From ANGELA DOLAND, Globe and Mail,  16 Oct 2009

French artist shows all-black paintings in Paris

For a major retrospective of the 89-year-old French painter's work, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris is dressed up with his giant, abstract, all-black canvases. For aficionados of the color, there is shiny black, matte black, black with gashes in ...

From ANGELA DOLAND, San Francisco Chronicle,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Georges Pompidou

Seychelles captures 11 suspected pirates

French soldiers successfully defended two fishing boats from capture by pirates in the Indian Ocean on Saturday, and 11 men suspected of involvement in the failed attack were pursued at sea and captured, officials said. The chain of events ...

From ANGELA DOLAND, Taiwan News,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: NATO,  Nicolas Sarkozy

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