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  • Google, The French, And World Domination; The Culture War Begins

    05/18/2005 7:58:18 PM PDT · by Lando Lincoln · 24 replies · 789+ views
    The Reality Check ^ | 18 May 2005 | Jason Miller
    A cloud is moving toward Europe. It carries with it the thunderous, electrical, (digitized?) calling card of storm-fronted majesty, raining in streams of zeros and ones, boisterous, anarchical, bellowing the dirges of Europe's heyday, reeking of Yankee imposition, a new brand of manifest destiny wearing a name tag pregnant with the usual oddity of foreign names-a name that gurgles from it foghorn style as it moves across the sea-Gooooooo-gle! Was that a tad dramatic? Judging from France and the EU, it may be an accurate description of how they feel about it. When Google announced a 10-year, $200 million plan...
  • French are unmoved by US 'frog bashing'

    02/07/2003 3:28:16 PM PST · by MadIvan · 235 replies · 1,285+ views
    The Times ^ | February 8, 2003 | Tim Reid and Charles Bremner
    “THE game is over,” President Bush told Iraq on Thursday. “It’s not a game, and it’s not over,” Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the French Prime Minister, shot back yesterday. Thus the war of words between dovish France and hawkish America grew more rancorous. There are three men in the world who would be wise for reasons of personal safety not to show their faces in America: Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and M Raffarin’s boss, President Chirac. Middle America, egged on by hostile television networks and editorial writers, has been whipped into a rage against what is perceived as betrayal by the...