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EYE ON EUROPE
2008:
An Addiction That's Now Cool: July
14, 2008
When A Frog Is Not
A Frog: June 30, 2008
Le Holiday Dinner
From Hell: June 16, 2008
Why, It's Horse,
Of Course!: June 9, 2008
Demolition Man:
May 26, 2008
Montaigne Rises
Again: May 19, 2008
An Anglo-Saxon in
A Latin World: May 12, 2008
The Echoing Genius
of Bernard Hermann: May 5, 2008
A Martian Calls:
April 21, 2008
Global Warming--The
Safer Bet: March 24, 2008
Pity Us Billionaires:
March 17, 2008
Confessions of A
Conservative: March 10, 2008
Les Oscars de France:
March 3, 2008
Revisiting A French
National Nightmare: Feb. 25, 2008
"West
Side Story": Feb. 18, 2008
War Surplus--Nazi
Style: Feb. 11, 2008
An Adjustment For
the French Work Ethic: Jan. 28, 2008
The French Eat Up
Celebrity Culture: Jan. 21, 2008
Is Good Cheese on
the Way Out?: Jan. 7, 2008
2007:
When Holiday Tunes Infest Your Brain:
Dec. 17, 2007
Lyke Magazine--A
Hatchery For Talent: Dec. 3, 2007
Where Did All the
Good Craftsmen Go: Nov. 26, 2007
Sarkozy's Women:
Nov. 19, 2007
Memories of 'Peanuts':
Oct. 29, 2007
The Growing Lure
of 'Deathsites': Oct. 22, 2007
You Are Now Entering
the French Bullfight Zone: Oct. 3, 2007
Mr. Johnson Goes
Walking: Sept. 17, 2007
The Great European
Butt Hunt: Sept. 3, 2007
So Long, Sara Jane:
Aug. 20, 2007
France and the Occult:
Aug. 6, 2007
Do You Really Want
To Live To Be 100?: July 16, 2007
Defending Against
Murdoch: July 9, 2007
His First All-Grape
Infusion: July 2, 2007
The Chinese Are
Coming, The Chinese Are Coming!: May 28, 2007
Beginning the Sarkozy
Era: May 14, 2007
Death to Corks?:
April 23, 2007
Sea Story: March
26, 2007
Brush Up On Your
Montesquieu, Mr. Bush: March 19, 2007
The World-Wide Wonder
Contest: March 12, 2007
Rivals For Power
in France: Feb. 5, 2007
Arrachage!: Jan.
22, 2007
True Confessons--The
Reporter As P.R. Man: Jan. 15, 2007
France24: Jan. 8,
2007
2006:
The International 'Borat' Brouhaha:
Dec. 18, 2006
Ah, France! How
Sweet It Was!: Dec. 4, 2006
Bagdad Cafe--The
Musical: Nov. 20, 2006
Bush's Plan To Tame
Media 'Reptiles': Oct. 30, 2006
Lady Presidents'
Summit: Oct. 16, 2006
Can She Be the Next
President of France?: Oct. 9, 2006
Motoring With Megwind:
Oct. 2, 2006
The Worldwise
SUV Menace: Sept. 4, 2006
Racing 'mones: Aug.
28, 2006
Cranky Old Man?
Sign of Intelligence!: Aug. 21, 2006
The Book Business--Not
Dead Yet!: Aug. 14, 2006
CNN's Super Scooper:
Aug. 7, 2006
Who Really Knows
the News?: July 3, 2006
And Now For The
Placenta Story...:June 26, 2006
Yanks Take Gas at
Cannes: May 30, 2006
The Language Issue:
May 29, 2006
Requiem For A Featherweight:
May 22, 2006
Our White House...in
France?: May 10, 2006
Condi Loses It?:
May 10, 2006
The Fallout From
Chirac's Surrender: April 20, 2006
The Pope's Privates:
April 3, 2006
Is the AP Wire Short-Circuiting?:
March 27, 2006
French Wine Industry
Imperiled?: March 20, 2006
A Trembling Nation:
March 6, 2006
The Resurrection
of the Dissidents: Feb. 20, 2006
'Good Night and Good
Luck': Feb. 6, 2006
If I Coached England's
Soccer Team...: Jan. 30, 2006
Relic of A War: Jan.
9, 2006
2005:
The Joy of Book Burning: Dec. 19,
2005
The Great French
Car-Torching Debate (with Robert Taylor): Dec. 5, 2005
Larry King--The Celebrity's
Friend: Dec. 5, 2005
Revolt of the Ignored:
Nov. 14, 2005
Oh, My Aching...Thumb?:
Oct. 31, 2005
Making A Home in
Bordeaux: Oct. 24, 2005
Meow! Can We Talk?:
Sept. 12, 2005
LETTERS
FROM LONDON:
Plain
English: May 30, 2005
The
Expatriate Test: May 23, 2005
The
Strange Case of the Battered Pilot: May 16, 2005
CAUGHT!
By the Parking Nazis: April 11, 2005
Get
Yourself A Book Club: March 21, 2005
Happiness
Overkill?: March 7, 2005
So
Long, Gonzoman: Feb. 28, 2005
Those
Obtuse English Laws: Feb. 21, 2005
The
Legendary Maxwell Perkins: Jan. 31, 2005
Johnson
vs. Taylor III (with Robert Taylor): Jan. 24, 2005
The People We Most
Want To See Less of in 2005 (with staff): Jan. 10, 2005
B-Movies
2004: Jan. 3, 2005
2004:
Saving the Foxes: Dec. 20, 2004
Mr,
Rather: In the Name of God, Just Go!: Dec. 6, 2004
The
Hallowed Practice of Smacking: Nov. 29, 2004
Wild
Turkey Dinner: Nov. 22, 2004
My
'Frozen Shoulder' Syndrome: Nov. 8, 2004
"The
Woman in White": Sept. 27, 2004
Laziness
is My Middle Name: Aug. 30, 2004
The
Other Olympiad: Aug. 23, 2004
Big
Primes, Big Payoff: Aug. 9, 2004
The
Other Career of Poet Pablo Neruda: July 26, 2004
In
A French Bookshop: June 28, 2004
A
Tall Story: June 14, 2004
Impressions
of America--2004: May 31, 2004
Abu
Ghraib--Crisis in Command?: May 17, 2004
Look
Out! Here Come the Easterners!:May 10, 2004
Editors
on the Defensive: April 26, 2004
A
Coalition Wobbles: April 19, 2004
Brits
and Yanks Failing History: April 12, 2004
Aliens
R Us: April 5, 2004
Alistair
Cooke: The Final Chapter?: March 29, 2004
England's
New Age of Scum: March 15, 2004
Get
Set For Identity Crisis: March 1, 2004
It's
the Ever-Popular Joe Bob: Feb. 16, 2004
Religious
War...Over Headscarves?: Feb. 2, 2004
Vengeance
is Mine: Jan. 19, 2004
The
Practice of 'Mathturbation': Jan. 5, 2004
2003:
Christmas Fare Indeed...Dec. 21, 2003
Both
Sides Now (with Robert Taylor): Dec. 8, 2003
I
Pass For Canadian!: Nov. 10, 2003
The
BBC Turns Timid: Oct. 26, 2003
Fairwelle,
Inglesh: Oct. 13, 2003
Remembering
Plimpton: Oct. 6, 2003
Girls
Who 'Kiss for Money': Sept. 29, 2003
The
United States--One Year Later: Sept. 22, 2003
How
the Red Sox Killed A Grandmother: Sept. 15, 2003
England
Gagging on Too Much News: Aug. 18, 2003
Jerry
Springer: An Opera?: Aug. 4, 2003
Mystery
of the Dead Scientist: July 28, 2003
The
Ever-so-proper Cool of Tim Henman: July 14, 2003
English
Law is Still 'A Ass': June 23, 2003
There's
An Upside to House-Hunting in France: June 9, 2003
TV
and the Iraq War: April 21, 2003
Truth--The
First Casualty in Iraq: March 31, 2003
The
Spooky Art: March 31, 2003
The Pianist:
March 17, 2003
Mixed
Signals From Paris: Feb. 24, 2003
Why
Can't They Be More Like Us?: Feb. 10, 2003 (with Robert Taylor)
Blimey!
Gun-Totin' Brits?: Jan. 27, 2003
In
Celebration of English Humor: Jan. 6, 2003
2002:
Santa Bombs in
the Tyrolean Alps: Dec. 16, 2002
On Writing: How To Make Them Stop
Breathing: Dec. 2, 2002
Political
Suicide on the Crowded Streets of London: Nov. 4, 2002
Stringing
Words Together: Oct. 14, 2002
Killing
Little Girls: Sept. 30, 2002
How
About A Little Velvet in the U.S. Iron Fist?: Sept. 9, 2002
My
Country, Right or Wrong: July 28, 2002
When
is A War Not A War?: June 30, 2002
Laughter
as Medicine--The Ultimate Test: June 23, 2002
The
88-tooth Monster Rides Again: May 26, 2002
Why
the Catholic Church Needs A Good Shake-up: May 19, 2002
Betrayed
Again By the Business World: April 14, 2002
Gosford
Park: March 17, 2002
My
Daughter Enters the Ring: Feb. 17, 2002
Return
of the Little Prince: Feb. 17, 2002
London
Taxis & the Art of the 10-Minute Monologue: Jan. 27, 2002
London's
New 'F'-Word: Federalism: Jan. 6, 2002
2001:
Helsinki in Winter: Dec. 23, 2001
Learning
to Live Abroad Starts with Some 'Unlearning': Dec. 2, 2001
Why
the British Are Confused About the War on Terrorism: Nov. 18,
2001