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Until now Emmanuel Macron's adviser on North Africa and the Middle East, Anne-Clark Legendre says she will champion "the Arab strand in French culture" as the new head of the Arab World Institute. She replaces Jack Lang who resigned from the post over revelations about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. SNIP The former culture minister announced his resignation ten days ago, after his name surfaced in the Epstein affair. SNIP Working alongside Emmanuel Macron, Anne-Claire Legendre has notably been involved in France’s move to recognise the State of Palestine. Reacting to the announcement of Anne-Claire Legendre’s appointment, Jack Lang hailed...

In the heat of the presidential campaign early this year, Jack Lang, a popular icon of the French left, accused Nicolas Sarkozy of “trickery at the highest level,” “anti-republican behavior” and — perhaps most cutting of all — being a “Bush adapted for France.” Now Mr. Lang, a former culture minister and education minister who served as campaign spokesman for the defeated Socialist candidate, Ségolène Royal, is the latest leading Socialist to defect to the Sarkozy camp. On Monday night, he announced that he was accepting President Sarkozy’s invitation to join his committee on modernizing France’s institutions. Threatened last week...

A Town of Tonawanda man says he remembers George Bush working just as hard as any other young pilot in training when he served in the National Guard. Jack Lang is a retired police officer who was an Air Force flight instructor in 1968 at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia. He was one of eight instructors for Bush and other who were learning how to fly jet fighters for various units including the Air National Guard in Texas. Lang says he knows none of the instructors would cut any student a break in the training because they all needed...