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Tuesday, June 17, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:15 AM:
French news headlines:Le Monde: Deputies Vote First Article in Fillon Plan. And Raffarin is sending "the French people" a letter to tell them the truth about the state of the retirement system, which this plan will fix by changing apportionment of benefits.
Le Figaro: Integrist Success Worries French Islam. In plainer language, advocates of a liberal interpretation of Islam are worried by strides made by fundamentalists in nearly capturing a majority of regional presidencies in France's official Islamic Council.
Libération: Raffarin Loses the Benefit of the Doubt. In the wake of the opening rounds of the retirement debate, he has ceased to be viewed as above politics.
Ouest-France: Ready for your vocab lesson, folks? Here's the headline in French and English:
Après la canicule, les orages arrivent / After the Caniculars, the Storms Arrive
And yes, that canicule is a word readers were supposed to figure out. All you Latinists out there probably identified canis, Latin for "dog," as the root. This is the diminuitive, "little dog," and our plain English translation is the "Dog Days," those hot days of early summer. Incidentally, the reference is not to earthly dogs but to the position of the "dog star," Sirius, a bit of trivia that you probably already knew if you run in circles were trivia is oft annoyingly repeated. The TurkeyBlog inhabits such a circle though he must admit to being the one who usually does the annoying repeating.
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