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France's love affair with bullfighting goes sour over 'too gruesome' advert ; EUROPE
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France's animal rights movement has succeeded this week in
planting a couple of sharp spears in the flanks of the once
seemingly untouchable French bullfighting industry.
Fierce public controversy has finally broken out on an issue
which has traditionally attracted only marginal interest in France.
A television advertisement calling for a ban on bullfighting has
been declared unacceptable - because it shows violent scenes at
bullfights.
The decision by France's advertis...
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France's love affair with bullfighting goes sour over 'too gruesome' advert ; EUROPE
The Independent - London
; France's animal rights movement has succeeded this week in planting a couple of sharp spears in the flanks of the once seemingly untouchable French bullfighting industry. Fierce public controversy has finally broken out on an issue which has traditionally attracted only marginal interest in France.
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Are the French and the Spanish finally turning against bullfighting?
Belfast Telegraph
; Why are we asking the question now? Opposition to bullfighting in France - weak and divided in the past - has finally broken through into the mainstream media and political agenda this summer. An anti-bullfighting television advertisement, narrated by the French protest singer Renaud was banned by
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Top matador faces cruelty trial Animal rights activists hope to end the 'horrific' practice of private bullfighting parties in the south of France, reports John Lichfield
The Independent - London
; FRANCE'S most successful matador goes on trial this week for inflicting cruelty on animals - the first time that a bullfighter has faced such a charge anywhere in the world. In an important test case for the future of bullfighting in France, Denis Lore - the Zinedine Zidane of French matadors - is
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Matadors seek new blood in France
The Independent - London
; The first ever bull-fight in the small town of La Brede, just south of Bordeaux, began in light drizzle and ended in a downpour. Rain at Wimbledon or Lord's is traditional; but whoever heard of rain at a bullfight? The weather did not stop the ritual slaughter: eight young Spanish bulls died before
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France in turmoil: in a housing project outside Paris, the children of immigrants come to terms with discrimination and poverty.(WORLD)
Junior Scholastic
; * OBJECTIVE Students should understand * France is in the midst of a crisis over how to absorb the children of immigrants from its former colonial empire. * BACKGROUND Among the legacies of the Algerian War for Independence (1954-1962) was the fate of a group of Algerian Muslims called the harkis.
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Where is France going? (France Survey)
The Economist (US)
; ... categories, firm rules. There is some truth in this. You see it in small ways-the sharp detail on buildings, the clarity of French maps, the precision with which they make up their faces. You see it in big, impressive ways-in, for example, the abstract, conceptual ...
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European Times: PARIS; Protesters see red over bulls in Stade de France
The Independent - London
; WILL MATADORS prance and bulls snort on the hallowed ground where France won the World Cup? Is bullfighting in sanitised guise coming to the Stade de France, just outside Paris? Plans are afoot to hold a bullfighting festival - without the actual bullfighting - in France's national stadium in June
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Les miserables. (France's economy, includes related article)
The Economist (US)
; France's economy has fared well during the past 20 years. Yet the French are not content IN THE 20 years after 1967, France's economy grew on average by 3.3% a year. This was faster than West Germany (2.8 America 2.6 or Britain (2.2 though slower than Japan (5.3 Real GNP per person rose by 70%,
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France and the US: The inevitable clash?
International Journal
; IT HAS BECOME BANAL TO STATE THAT THE IRAQ CRISIS has generated profound tensions between the United States and France. The rift that resulted can be considered unprecedented, which makes the evaluation of its long-term consequences difficult. Throughout the crisis, newspapers in the US, and to a
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Vive la difference: Europe's future is in Chirac's hands.(President Jacques Chirac)(France: Survey)(Cover Story)
The Economist (US)
; FRANCE'S difficulties are in many ways much like other rich countries', and in some ways rather different. The difference derives from the French context, the F-factor, which may make problems harder to solve, or may make them easier. Unemployment, immigration, the reform of the welfare state: all
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