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...This trend is spreading to some surprising places. When French carmaker Renault introduced the midsize Logan in 2004, it expected to sell the vast bulk of the basic sedans in Eastern Europe. But the Logan, which Renault builds in Romania and Russia and which costs as little as $7,200 - about 40% less than rival sedans - quickly took off in wealthier Western Europe as well. The car now sells in more than 50 countries and Renault is struggling to meet demand. "Our aim is to produce the most affordable car in its segment, and because we're doing that well...
...With her declamatory colors and her inventory of shoes and spoons, children's toys and kitchen tables, she could remind you sometimes of Bonnard, the French homebody who found paradise in his own kitchen and an iridescent grotto in his wife's bath. For all her overflowing manner, Murray was what the French call an intimiste, a painter, like Bonnard or Vuillard or even Matisse, who takes the modest precincts of domestic life as a perfectly good place to make art. Then, if they can, they floodlight the room with whatever it is we mean by genius. This is what...
...French public that elected Sarkozy certainly remain cool to the current White House: Polls after the Kennebunkport weenie roast showed 40% of French respondents saying they wanted Franco-American relations to remain as they are, while a further 26% said they'd like Paris to seek further distance from Washington...
...would really be paradoxical if you had Great Britain taking its distance and France aligning itself [with the U.S.] at the same moment that President Bush has been discredited," fumed Pierre Moscovici, a French Socialist Party official who oversees international affairs. Moscovici warns that Sarkozy is betting on the wrong political horse. "George Bush isn't America," Moscovici told the weekly Journal du Dimanche. "He's a man who is totally rejected today, whose at the end of his mandate - a lame duck - and who shares power with a Democratic Congress. It would be a grave error to demonstrate ostensible...
...disagrees, suggesting the Sarkozy-Bush lunch was simply a photo op for domestic consumption on both sides of the Atlantic. "For the U.S. public, this was viewed as the popular new French president coming to call on the unpopular out-going American president," he says. "To the French, it was mainly became a lunch Cécilia wound up not going...