Age over youth: Christie&#39;s in, France kicked out
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The Giants began camp with three placekickers: Matt Bryant, Bill Gramatica and Todd France. None of them will kick on opening day.
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"Whether you like it or not, it undermines the function of the president."  For Jacques Chirac, the legal clock is ticking: At midnight Saturday, the former French leader officially loses his presidential immunity, and could face investigators' questions _ or worse.Judges could come knocking over at least five cases involving suspected corruption and alleged financial misdeeds, most dating to Chirac's time as Paris mayor from 1977 to 1995 _ the year he became president.It's unlikely that Chirac, 74, would ever go to jail, but the cases loom as a humiliating coda to his four-decade political career. Since the Fifth Republic was founded in 1958, a former head of state has never been required to answer allegations of wrongdoing from earlier in his career. Read more
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Â· Ex-president questioned as immunity comes to endÂ· Party officials said to have been on Paris city payroll
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Senior French politicians stepped up calls for top managers at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale to resign over a rogue traderâs deals that cost the bank more than $7 billion.
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By Steven Rea The Philadelphia Inquirer  TIME TO LEAVE -- *** -- Melvil Poupaud, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi; in French, with English subtitles; not rated, probable R (sex, nudity, profanity, drugs, adult themes).
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Comments The French president has announced his retirement Jacques Chirac has announced his retirement from politics after a career spanning more than 40 years.Comment
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Trust and inclusion foregrounded in desperate rescue plan Teachers and 16 year olds are the favoured 'soft targets' for the redesigned ID card scheme rollout, according to an Identity &amp; Passport Service planning document seen by The Register. As suggested in leaks last weekend, IPS now plans to soft-pedal fingerprints and - astoundingly - it seems on the point of abandoning the notion of forcing ID cards onto the public via passport renewals.â¦
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Two female students in France have become the first to be expelled under a new law banning overt religious symbols in public schools.
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France&#39;s interior minister called it &quot;scandalous.&quot; Le Figaro called it ridiculous. But whatever you choose to call it, on Monday, four days after the police at Roissy-Charles
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Students in Ontario will have to keep their nose in their books until they&#39;re at least 18 years old. The province is set to propose new legislation next year that would make students stay in school until they&#39;re 18-years-old.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ (Sept. 7, 2004) -- The New York Giants signed veteran kicker Steve Christie, ending for the time being Todd France&#39;s dream of playing in the NFL.
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PARIS: France&#39;s state schools grappling with a new law banning Muslim headscarves have started expelling students refusing to put education before their religion.
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FEZ, Morocco  - When asked who will get his vote in Morocco's parliamentary elections next month, 70-year-old Mohamed Mahbou looks up from his game of cards and anger flashes in his eyes.
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PARIS - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are getting supersized in France. The 18-year-old actresses are promoting McDonald's Happy Meals in the 1,035 McDonald's outlets in the country...
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By JAMEY KEATEN  PARIS - A new law in France makes it a crime for anyone who is not a professional journalist to film real-world violence and distribute the images on the Internet.
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French President Jacques Chirac: on his way out figures among the top &#x2019;euro-saures&#x2019; who, in accordance with the laws of evolution, must give way to a new kind of leader.Comment
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Rocker Eric Clapton has been banned from driving in France and had his British licence confiscated - after being clocked driving at 216 kilometres-per-hour on a French motorway.