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            <title><![CDATA[Is the Louvre Selling Out?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To fill its spectacular new museum in Abu Dhabi, France's grandest art institution is loaning hundreds of national treasures for sky-high fees. Eric Pape on the price of artistic treason.
Has the grande dame of museums, the Louvre, been reduced to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Haiti Dictator's Poor-Man Exile?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier told The Daily Beast he'd like to donate $8M to his homeland. But is the former despot too broke to support even himself-or just as corrupt as ever?
When you inherit the family mantle of President for Life at age 19,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA['Baby Doc' Speaks]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an exclusive email to The Daily Beast, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, who was exiled to France in 1986, offered quake victims comfort and an $8 million pledge of support. Duvalier's dramatic departure to France was celebrated all around Haiti, and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Vive Johnny Hallyday!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Did nearly dying at an L.A. hospital give new life to beloved French rocker Johnny Hallyday's career? Eric Pape on why Quentin Tarantino wants to make a movie with the French Elvis.
What does iconic French rocker Johnny Hallyday-who just emerged from...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Inside the L'Oreal Family Feud]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A French court just ruled that aging heiress Liliane Bettencourt can keep her billions-but is her daughter right that she's too sick to control it? 
Europe's wealthiest woman may be enduring a traumatizing battle between her daughter and a longtime...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Switzerland's Gift to Osama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The shameful vote to ban mosque minarets will not only damage the country's reputation, it could inspire a new wave of terrorism. 
As Sunday's Swiss vote to ban the construction of mosque minarets continues to reverberate, the winners are becoming...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[France's Sarah Palin]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  S&eacute;gol&egrave;ne Royal is polarizing her country's Socialist Party-and leading its revival. Eric Pape on what the French Rogue can teach Republicans about 2012.
Stop me if you've heard this before: A beautiful, attention-grabbing high-profile...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Corruption Scandal Gripping Paris]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The dominant French conservative of the last 40 years, Jacques Chirac mixes W.'s folksiness with Clinton's popular appeal and long-suffering spouse. He's more popular than ever-and he's facing a decade behind bars. Eric Pape reports.
For a retiree,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[There She Is, Miss Botox]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Budapest has become a raunchy European porn capital fueled by a booming plastic surgery tourism trade. Eric Pape on a provocative beauty contest meant to boost business.
It wasn't your average beauty contest. The 18 young contestants were nearly naked...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will France Ban Scientology?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Five years after Tom Cruise called Nicolas Sarkozy a "wonderful guy," a French court convicted his church of fraud. Eric Pape on Scientology's latest crisis.
Scientology isn't a religion, it's a dangerous sect overseen by convicted criminals-at...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Carla on the Couch]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After finding out she's a love child, Madame Sarkozy has been working out some big issues in therapy. Eric Pape on the documentary France can't wait to see.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy doesn't like to open herself up while she's lying down-at least not when...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[French Connections]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Nicolas Sarkozy's wayward 23-year-old son is being positioned as overseer of a multibillion-dollar overhaul of Paris' "Midtown Manhattan." Eric Pape on Europe's nepotism scandal.
Dear Jean, 
So you're 23. The economy sucks. You're foundering in...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:15:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The End of Swiss Discretion]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ On the lam? Evading taxes? Looting your national treasury? Switzerland has long been a see-no-evil haven for rich criminals like Roman Polanski-but that's finally changing.
When Swiss authorities did America's bidding and arrested Polish-born...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:40:14 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Bardot Influenced Sex]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Brigitte Bardot, 75 today, did more than serve as a siren of the sexual revolution-she connected France inextricably with the libido. Plus, view our gallery of women she inspired.
France is a woman. It isn't just that the nation is referred to as la...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The G-20's Drama Queen]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The French president threatened to walk out of the summit in Pittsburgh if leaders don't take action on global finance, but such grandstanding undermines his cause, says Eric Pape.
Once upon a time, French presidents were languid, detached, and rarely...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Music]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I listen to the exquisitely unique rock band Dengue Fever when I need to find some sort of sonic bridge between my adolescence in the L.A. music scene and my years as a reporter in Cambodia. Their songs, in Khmer and English, are inspired by the long...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Music]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In grim times, it is difficult to find a more uplifting musical story than that of the band Staff Benda Bilili. They aren't just of the street, they have literally lived on the street, crawling through its dust. They are musicians from Kinshasa in the...]]></description>
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