Rose Cantine

Who’s doing the best job covering the Lebanon crisis? In my opinion it’s the bloggers and the French media, whose coverage is balanced and extensive (lots of news reports, photos and video).
None of the other media outlets covers the war with the same kind of detail as the French do. Here are links to [...]

Walmart has sold all of its stores to Metro in Germany and is pulling out of the country. According to the Wall Street Journal, rival supermarkets in Germany “were tougher competition than Wal-Mart anticipated and undercut one of its core appeals: low prices. And employees blanched at some of its American-style workplace rules . . [...]

With lots and lots of testosterone! Click here to read article and watch the video where Landis explains that his fabulous victory had nothing to do with unnatural chemical assistance.
In fact, Landis says he has “normal” amounts of testosterone and that his Tour win was the result of lots of hard work . . . [...]

Were you glued to the TV over the past week watching Floyd Landis’s unbelievable Tour de France victory? Not only was it an historic win, it was also one of the more exciting finishes to the Tour de France.
Except, today it appears that he has tested positive for testosterone. Screaming headlines on Le Figaro: Landis [...]

Watch this video on the French TV channel, France 2, about the two faces of Beirut: one, where people are shopping, hanging out and eating ice cream; and the other, where the street furniture has been radically re-arranged by the Israeli army’s urban design team.
Click here to go to the France 2 website and go [...]

Amsterdam, like much of Europe, has been suffering from the hottest summer in recorded history. Everyday it has been 30C or so here. Hardly anyone has a fan, let alone airco.
So it’s a welcome change to have thunderstorms. Except of course, just now, the cracks of thunder are shaking the entire house. As we say [...]