Archive for August, 2007
In its August 28 2007 issue, Le Monde titles, for instance, “Baisse du nombre des clandestins africains qui accostent aux Canaries”, which can be translated as “The number of African clandestines arriving to the Canary Islands decreases”. In its same day’s issue, The Guardian publishes an unrelated piece of news titled “Call for selective amnesty [...]
France now has a Ministry of Immigration and National Identity. It is in part committed to the task of what is called in France “faire du chiffre”. This means “doing figures”: in other words, attaining a quantitative level that accounts for the performance of governmental and administrative action. Here, the figure under consideration is “number [...]
In his comment to a recent post at Commentaires & Vaticinations (a popular opinion-making French blog), Maître Eolas, a lawyer at the Barreau de Paris and also reputable blogger, says the following:
“When you deal with that from the inside, when you see what you see, it’s impossible to avoid thinking that the darkest page of [...]
It seems that BNP Paribas (“la banque d’un monde qui change”) is joining the exclusive group of banks that are experiencing sad pricing problems, suffering from their own efforts at taking advantage from asset-deprived, mortgage-bootstrapped North-American workers:
“BNP Paribas added its name to a growing list of investment houses that have frozen funds exposed to asset-backed [...]
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