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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





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