By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Equestrian styles dominated two major collections on day six of Paris fashion week, with horse-riding vestments _ some comfortably elegant, some constrictingly racy _ the motif explored by Hermes and Givenchy.
France may have lost an A in its credit rating, but fashion seems to have won it back with a flourishing start to haute couture week _ from the A-list celebrities to Dior's 1950s A-line silhouettes.
George Whitman's life was packed with the type of adventures that filled every nook and cranny of his bookshop, Paris' iconic English-language Shakespeare and Company.
George Whitman's life was packed with the type of adventures that filled every nook and cranny of his bookshop, Paris' iconic English-language Shakespeare and Company.
The lady with the crazy hat is back, 106 years after she scandalized Parisians. Nearby is another woman of scandal, reclining naked, her body strangely contorted and tinted blue.
''Parlez-moi d'amour." Speak to me of love. This is Paris and the language is love — crazy love — amid the creative folly of a city whose ethereal beauty and bawdy underside spell magic.
Tens of thousands of French workers took to the streets Thursday for the second day of nationwide strikes this month to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62, with union walkouts crippling planes, trains and schools across the country.
Hopes of averting a breakdown in Middle East peace talks grew Thursday as senior Palestinian officials said their side would consider an expected U.S.-brokered compromise on Israeli settlement-building in the West Bank.
Once upon a time, there were a lot of Americans in Paris. We liked them and they - well, most of them - liked us. And one of us the French liked very much was an enterprising young woman named Sylvia Beach who, in 1919, opened a bookstore on the Left Bank and called it Shakespeare & Company.
France's first lady, a former supermodel turned songstress, is making her debut as an actress, filming this week in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris."
France's first lady, a former supermodel turned songstress, is making her debut as an actress, filming this week in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris."
Did Jim Morrison overdose on a nightclub toilet or die of a drug-induced heart attack in a bathtub at home? Thirty-six years after the death in Paris of the Doors legend, biographers are locking horns over his final hours.
Did Jim Morrison overdose on a nightclub toilet or die of a drug-induced heart attack in a bathtub at home? Thirty-six years after the death in Paris of the Doors legend, biographers are locking horns over his final hours.
LIBERTY: THE LIVES AND TIMES OF SIX WOMEN IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE
LIBERTY: THE LIVES AND TIMES OF SIX WOMEN IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE
