A Bird Battle, Canned Students, and a Dead Director

Your Tuesday clicks:


Ortolans: to eat or not to eat?

Activists ready to sabotage French bird-hunters (The Independent)
Alain Corneau, Eclectic French Film Director, Dies at 67 (Obituary, NYTimes.com)
France to tackle student housing crisis with… shipping containers (France24)
Parenting study: Italians strict, French moderate, Canadians lenient (Eurekalert)

Romagate:
Minister cites crime statistics to justify Roma deportations (France24)
Sarkozy loyalists refuse to soften on France’s controversial Roma crackdown (Guardian)
France Vows To Boost Deportation Of Foreign Beggars, Thieves (AHN)
French government faces internal ‘malaise’ over policy of expelling Gypsies (Canadian Press)

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Posted on August 31, 2010

One Response to A Bird Battle, Canned Students, and a Dead Director

  1. reader says:
    August 31, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    Ortolans : those were the birds whom Gigi had to eat as part of her lessons from her aunt. I always felt sorry for the poor little creatures.