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There is perhaps no country as obsessed with its own capital city as France is with Paris. From the moment René Clair lowered a camera down the center of the Eiffel Tower in 1925 to capture spectacular views of the city in “Paris qui dort,” French filmmakers have been unable to tear their attention away from the City of Light. This is unfortunate for Cédric Klapisch, previously the director of “L’Auberge Espagnole,” a 2002 sleeper hit popular enough to inspire...
...such as the allegation that certain companies manipulated addictive properties in their junk food, as some tobacco companies did with their products. Lawyers claim, for example, that some fast-food restaurants deliberately raise the temperature at which they cook their fries to increase the amount of fat absorbed. Terrie Dort, president of the National Council of Chain Restaurants, calls such allegations "completely absurd and without scientific basis...
...when Dort went overseas to serve in thearmy, the relationship ended abruptly...
...didn't see him again or hear from him againuntil this winter," she says. "I was watching theCharles Kuralt show... They were looking at theremains of a crater in a big field. And he said aprofessor, a geology professor, Wakefield Dort, isgoing to tell us about...
After college, she married Donald Condon, whodid not attend Harvard. Now, 50 years later, shehas still not seen or spoken to Dort...