Late last year, Olivia DeLozier found herself in an interesting spot - in more ways than one. The Memphis native and Rhodes College grad was living in a small apartment in Paris, teaching English through a fellowship she'd been offered from the Rhodes French department. While in France, she learned she'd been accepted into medical school at the UT Health Science Center in Memphis.
When the news about the subprime mess hit and American banks and financial institutions began toppling, there was more disbelief. How can a responsible nation allow this to happen? When Lehman Brothers was allowed to fold, the main question on people's lips was, again, how can they let this be? There was anger, again, at the way the U.S. does not consider other nations. When European banks began crumbling, it was seen as the fault of irresponsible government, not simply Wall Street; whereas I notice that here in the U.S., Wall Street is made to carry the can - "greedy" capitalists all. (When is a capitalist not a greedy capitalist? When he is Nicolas Sarkozy, apparently.) But again the criticism was that America "ne se rend pas compte." This only means, America doesn't realize. The impl...
PARIS (MCT) -- A broken alarm system. A sawed-off padlock. A security video of a masked figure dressed in black slipping through a broken window. And empty picture frames leaning against a short stone wall facing the Seine. As dawn broke Thursday, authorities in the French capital had egg on their faces and a high-profile mystery on their hands: How did a thief slip into Paris' Art Deco-style Museum of Modern Art, across from the Eiffel Tower, avoid the three guards on duty and slip out with five paintings worth at least $100 million, among them works by Picasso and Matisse?
Sometimes its good not to be king - at least for Jonathan Rhys Meyers in "From Paris With Love. In the action film, which opens today, the Irish actor plays an aide to the U.S. ambassador in the City of Light who also happens to be a low-level CIA operative. Yearning for a bigger assignment, Rhys Meyers' James Reece is paired with wild man Charlie Wax, an agency veteran played with panache - bald head, earrings, scarves, leather jackets and parachute pants - by John Travolta.
Which isn't such a bad thing. Because this is a staggeringly bad film, an action-comedy buddy film in which the action is hackneyed, the comedy is laugh-proof and the buddies have all the chemistry of salt and pepper shakers. 'A miscast Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays James Reese, an American aide to the U.S. ambassador (Richard Durden) in France. Dreaming of a more exciting life as a CIA operative, Reese gets the chance to prove he has what it takes when [Charlie Wax] hits town on a secret mission and he's ordered to partner up. It's like a Bourne movie minus the brains. Reese is pretty much relegated to looking on in awe as Wax takes out the Eurotrash. He's unstoppable in a totally cartoonish way. Wherever [John Travolta] goes, bullets and bodies fly, but his havoc is all in the editing. T...
The third thing that sets Besserat apart is the winemaker for the last nine years, Cedric Thiebault I had the chance to sit down with him one-on-one as we tasted through the entire line of his best Cuvée Des Moines bottlings. His methods may be ultra-modern, but he has a palate for the age-old grace of Champagne. Never heavy, never earthbound, the wines overflow with what these grapes-in this particular climate, in this special soil-can do. He unerringly balances each grape's virtues and always retains an elegant touch throughout There's a gentleness in the man, soft spoken, youthfully sure of his way yet never a hint of braggadocio. His wines are the same. They don't ever yell, but they encircle you with their suppleness and intense aromas. Today's clamor for the best especially in the...
PARIS - The French-speaking voice booming through loudspeakers at Court Philippe Chatrier recited Roger Federer's bona fides during prematch introductions, detailing his six titles at Wimbledon, five at the U.S. Open, four at the Australian Open and then, reaching a crescendo, concluded this way: One at Roland Garros, here, last year!
PARIS | French investigators have found jewels valued at $25 million hidden in a Paris rain sewer - part of a 2008 heist from luxury jeweler Harry Winston's Paris boutique. Nineteen rings and three sets of earrings - one pair valued at $19.5 million - were dug up from a drain at a house in the working class Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, police said. The jewels were hidden in a plastic container set in a cement mold inside the sewer, police said. The house belonged to one of the nine people charged in the heist. The bold Harry Winston robbery on Dec. 5, 2008, netted the thieves - some dressed as women and wearing wigs - gems and bejeweled watches worth up to $118.1 million, police said. More recently, police have set the figure at $85 million.
PARIS - Paris, once regarded as the gastronomical center of the world, is looking to a cadre of young chefs from a country derided for its love of processed cheese - gasp, the United States - to help raise the bar. French chefs have been opening fine restaurants stateside for years, but up until about a decade ago, the opposite would have been almost unthinkable. Now, bright young things from New York, Chicago and Seattle are behind some of the City of Light's most-hyped, hardest-to-get-into establishments.
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