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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Cacophony is the day within the ruling center-right UMP party, as they determine exactly how to handle outspoken French Secretary of State for Sport Rama Yade. The drama is making national headlines in Franch. The French are even calling Secretary Yade, who is a former human rights minister, "La Rebelle" (The Rebel). Some days ago, there was a row over Secretary Yade's dissent from the party...
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French Politics (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
There was an odd little story circulating this morning according to which someone "in the President's entourage" supposedly reported that Sarko thought Rama Yade had difficulty being a team player. Now it turns out it was Sarko himself in a supposedly off-the-record talk with 6 journalists, who in the end couldn't maintain the off-the-record pose. This after yesterday's story that Sarko wanted...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Things are getting interesting in France in regards to Rama Yade, the outspoken French Secretary of State and former human rights minister who is France's most popular politician. A move by the French government to scrap a tax break which benefits top football and rugby players has angered clubs and caused a huge row between Secretary Yade and her fellow center-right cabinet colleagues . Ms. Yade was...
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FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
Pig's Head, Swastikas Deface French Muslim Prayer Room In North African Community Centre. First Published 2009-08-20 Courtesy Of Middle-East-Online TOUL, France - Vandals hung a pig's head from the door of a Muslim prayer room in eastern France, daubing the building top to bottom with swastikas and anti-Islamic graffiti, police said Wednesday. A passer-by alerted police Wednesday morning after discovering...
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French Politics (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
Intermarché turned out a claque of desperate housewives to greet education minister Luc Chatel in the back-to-school aisle, where the obliging women told the minister what he wanted to hear, that his "back-to-school essentials" program was working out just as planned. Unfortunately, the ruse was cousu de fil blanc and has made a laughingstock of Chatel both at home and abroad . Nadine...
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