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                    [Title] => Mais non! French universities may teach in English
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In France, there's a brewing debate over whether to speak anglais in universite.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-23 02:06:34 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1371370 [AuthorName] => Jamey Keaten [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 901362 [Title] => Hashtag goes Gallic in French lawbooks [Summary] =>

The French government is redefining hashtag with a Gallic touch. The country that has an academy devoted solely to the use of the French language has given its official seal of approval to a new word for the Twittersphere: mot-diese.

[DatePublished] => 2013-01-26 01:00:05 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 520012 [Title] => Anthropology giant Claude Levi-Strauss dead at 100 [Summary] =>

PARIS (AP) – After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or tobacco. The sensory awakening was the start of a journey that turned a young Parisian scholar into a founder of modern anthropology.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-04 14:50:34 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 519979 [Title] => French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss dies [Summary] =>

Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-04 02:20:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 302859 [Title] => ‘The arrogance of the French’ confirmed: But we always love Paris! [Summary] => PARIS – In Manila, I hear, the government is bracing itself for "riots" to be provoked by the imposition of the Expanded Value Added Tax (EVAT). Nobody, of course, loves to pay more taxes. During Spanish times, in the Ilocos, when they slapped a tax on our saluyot national drink, the Ilocanos even staged a Basi Revolt.

Here in Paris, where a strike could be called any minute, taking commuters by surprise, all is quiet – for now. The sun is out, the skies are blue, although it’s growing colder by the day.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 183448 [Title] => Hadrian & Antinous: A Roman Love Affair [Summary] => It was the book Hadrian’s Memoirs, by Marguerite Yourcenar that would eventually, many years later, bring me to Rome.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1404823 [AuthorName] => John L. Silva [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) ) )
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