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• French foreign policy and Tunisia: do human rights matter?

The French government under President Jacques Chirac presents itself as a staunch and vocal supporter of democratization, human rights and political f...

• Middle East Policy
• Vol. 9 Nbr. 2, June 2002

• French Foreign Policy and the Arab World, a Grim History

In his latest book, "Betrayal," David Pryce-Jones states that not only has France betrayed its Jewish citizens but also itself. There has long been a stratum of French society that has never quite accepted the French revolution but maintained an exclusive sense of French superiority. Members of this group considered the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (the Quai d'Orsay) their natural home and not until the 1950s were Jews and Protestants even considered for appointment. It made for a rather ingrown, highly literate, but not very effective instrument for foreign policy. The establishment had a romantic attachment to the Holy Land (Palestine) dating from the Crusades, and schools with instruction in French proliferated throughout the Turkish and Arab Near East.

• The Washington Times
• October 23, 2006

• The Fanmi Lavalas Political Project

The effects of a U.S.-, Canadian-, and French-led embargo on foreign aid (upon which the Haitian state is almost completely dependent) during Aristide's second administration get short shrift in Dupuy's historical survey, as do Aristide's social-investment programs, which provided literacy and health care programs for Haiti's poor for the first time in the country's history. Supportive though sometimes critical of the Lavalas political project - whose mobilization he calls "the decisive event of contemporary Haitian politics"-Hallward depicts in great detail how a loose coalition of elites, foreign states, and donor-civil society groups worked in tandem to demonize the movement, leading to the 2004 ouster.

• NACLA Report on the Americas
• Vol. 41 Nbr. 6, November 2008

• Workshift / Postsecondary Foreign Language Teacher Saying Oui to Change International Engineer Turns to Teaching Spanish and French at Matc

Recovering from his job loss in the last recession, Ron Gest reflected on his engineering career and decided that what he enjoyed most was the ability to use the French and Spanish he had studied. So he went back to school and became a foreign language teacher. What does he do? Foreign language teacher, currently teaching an online Spanish course through Milwaukee Area Technical College.

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• July 27, 2009

• Eastern Auto Distributors, Inc., Appellant, v. Peugeot Motors of America, Inc., a Foreign Corporation, Appellee, and Automobiles Peugeot, Societe Anonyme Regie Par Les Articles, a French Corporation And/or Entity, Defendant. Eastern Auto Distributors, Inc., Appellee, v. Peugeot Motors of America, Inc., a Foreign Corporation, Appellant, and Automobiles Peugeot, Societe Anonyme Regie Par Les Articles, a French Corporation And/or Entity, Defendant., 795 F.2d 329 (4th Cir. 1986)

Thomas F. McPhaul (Robert C. Nusbaum, Joseph R. Lassiter, Jr., Hofheimer, Nusbaum, McPhaul & Brenner, Norfolk, Va., on brief), and Alan M. Frey (Borin...

• Federal Circuits

• Calvin Jacob Rich

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - Educator Dr. Calvin J. Rich, 70, died peacefully during his sleep Nov. 30, 2011. Dr. Rich was born Sept. 28, 1941, in Calais, son of the late Jack H. Rich of Boston, and the late Virginia E. Stinson of Stonington. Dr. Rich attended public schools in Stonington before obtaining a degree in education from the University of Maine at Machias in 1963. Dr. Rich pursued graduate training in theater arts and in gifted and special education. He taught students from elementary school through graduate school. He worked as a diagnostic, prescriptive consultant in Maine, administering and interpreting a wide range of psychological and educational tests. He also worked with gifted children in Florida and with terminally ill children in Phoenix. He taught special needs and gifted ...

• Bangor Daily News
• December 21, 2011

• ; Aug. 20, 1930 -- May 21, 2011

William Joseph "Bill" Rechin, a Buffalo-born internationally syndicated cartoonist, died May 21 in his home in Spotsylvania County, Va., of complications of esophageal cancer. He was 80. Mr. Rechin created the comic strips Pluribus, Out of Bounds and Crock. Crock, a spoof of the French Foreign Legion and "Beau Geste" by Mr. Rechin, Don Wilder and Brant Parker, started in 1975 and appeared for many years in The Buffalo News. Crock's Fort is one of the features in Universal Studio's Islands of Adventure theme park in Orlando, Fla.

• Buffalo News
• June 08, 2011

• Patterns of International Investment in Spain, 1850-2005

International capital flows are strongly influenced by country-specific patterns that can be best understood in historical and comparative perspective. A long-term empirical analysis of French and German investment in Spain reveals that the core capabilities of foreign firms and their relations with local partners have spurred the rise and development of two national models of international investment, characterized here as "political" and "technical." The research identifies the main actors and the ownership advantages of the two models that have proved to be so resilient over time.

• Business History Review
• Vol. 83 Nbr. 3, October 2009

• Embassy Row [Derived Headline]

DON'T LEAVE DAMASCUS The Syrian foreign minister this week warned the U.S. and French ambassadors that they will face severe travel restrictions if they leave Damascus again without government permission.

• The Washington Times
• July 25, 2011

• Assad Regime Faces Worldwide Isolation

BEIRUT - Syria's president faced a growing challenge to his iron rule from home and abroad Wednesday, with renegade troops launching their most daring attack yet on the military and world leaders looking at possibilities for a regime without Bashar Assad. France recalled its ambassador to Damascus in the wake of recent attacks against diplomatic missions and increasing violence stemming from the 8-month-old uprising. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe warned that "the vise is tightening" around Assad, and a government spokeswoman said Paris is working with the Syrian opposition to find an alternative to the regime.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• November 17, 2011