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PARIS (Reuters) - Police suspect a French prosecutor of paying a prostitute with a stolen credit card just hours after addressing a conference on ethics, a Justice Ministry source says. The source said the prosecutor could be suspended and might face disciplinary procedures. He gave no further details, but Le Parisien newspaper reported on Monday the prosecutor from southwestern France presented a paper on the ethics of his profession at a conference in Germany in May before visiting the brothel and paying with a credit card which investigators suspect was stolen from a colleague.

Can't believe what I'm seeing. A whole Company of French Honor Guards saluting Arafat's stinking, rotten carcass with a flag-draped coffin.

Chirac hails end of Iraqi dictatorship PARIS (AFP) - French President Jacques Chirac hailed the fall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s government in Iraq (news - web sites) and said he hoped the fighting in the country would end soon, his office announced. "France, like all democracies, is delighted at the fall of the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and hopes for a quick and effective end to the fighting," Chirac's office said in a statement. "It is now necessary to create the conditions which will give the Iraqi people its dignity in re-discovered freedom. "What is...

While driving to school today, my daughter called from Whidbey Island with a great incident that happened last night in Seattle. As a military wife (Josh is on the USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT), she is very pro-American and anti-protestors. The protestors really make her angry. At the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, during a performance of MY FAIR LADY, the lead actor, Prof. Henry Higgins, dissed the French on stage. There is a part in which Eliza gets a French dress. The actor actually said it should have been an English dress. The crowd was stunned. Actors apparently get fined if...