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I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American.
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Iran
Surprise
Biggest Surprise
Iranians
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The position of vice president does not exist in France; neither does a role comparable that of the first lady of the United States.
Elaine Sciolino /
First Lady
France
Vice President
Comparable
Lady
Neither
Vice
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France has become the second-largest consumer of pizza per person, per pound, in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Italy.
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France
Pizza
Consumer
Per
Italy
Pound
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Paris will give bicyclists more rights when it installs 4,300 signs throughout the city, allowing them to barrel though red lights and turn right on red.
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Allowing
Barrel
Lights
Signs
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Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.
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Bicycle
France
Newspaper
Published
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Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Mohammed Khatami's promise to promote women into high-profile positions.
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High Profile
Iran
Promise
Mohammed
Positions
Symbol
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The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital in the world.
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Determined
Fantasy
Anne
Capital
Mayor
Promote
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In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan International.' The man who gave her the job was Mr. Khatami, who was then head of the Kayhan publishing house.
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Publishing
Publishing House
Mr
Ms
Newspaper
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In 1991, only two years into the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice suddenly left her powerful job as the top Russia expert on the National Security Council and went back to California - to get a life.
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Administration
California
Council
National Security
Rice
Russia
Security Council
Bush
Bush Administration
Condoleezza
Condoleezza Rice
Get A Life
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When Pope Francis touched down on French soil for the first time in his papacy with a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last November, Ms. Royal was the senior French official there to greet him.
Elaine Sciolino /
November
Parliament
Pope
Royal
Senior
Soil
Touched
Francis
Greet
Ms
Official
Visit
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Francois Hollande, the president of France, and Segolene Royal, a senior cabinet minister who once ran for that post herself, have an exceptionally complicated relationship. The two lived together for 25 years, raising four children over that time.
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France
Ran
Royal
Senior
Time Relationship Together
Cabinet
Exceptionally
Herself
Minister
Post
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I don't think Iraq could be transformed overnight into a democracy. How can you take a country that doesn't have any kind of tradition of democracy, where its people have been brutalized and repressed for decades, and suddenly impose Jeffersonian ideals?
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Decades
Ideals
Repressed
Transformed
Impose
Overnight
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The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.
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Designer
Florence
Furniture
Italian
Renaissance
Santa
Floor
Maria
Shop
Opened
Outlet
Soaps
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Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'
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Attachment
Bicycle
German
Bikes
Device
Historically
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When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.
Elaine Sciolino /
Decades
Rejected
Wine
Best Work World
Brutally
Nearly
Italy
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The Bush administration actually started out with an open mind towards Iran, by all indications. In fact, early in the administration, the White House tasked the various agencies of government to do an inter-agency review of Iran policy, as it did with Iraq policy and most of the big areas of the world.
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Administration
Iran
Open Mind
White House
Agencies
Bush
Bush Administration
Review
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Colin Powell has said over the years that Saddam Hussein is like a toothache. It recurs from time to time, and you just have to live with it. At other times, he's compared Saddam Hussein to a kidney stone that will eventually pass. But he has never said, 'You have to operate and take out the kidney stone.'
Elaine Sciolino /
Hussein
Saddam
Toothache
Colin
Time Live Will
Colin Powell
Compared
From Time To Time
Operate
Saddam Hussein
Stone
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We often forget that Iran has a long tradition and history with the United States. Iranians have been coming to the United States as students for decades. American businessmen were in Iran developing the oil fields. ...There was an American financial advisor to the Iranian government in the early part of the century.
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Decades
Developing
Fields
Iran
Oil
Tradition
Advisor
Businessmen
Iranians
Long Tradition
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The first weekend after the attacks of September 11, George W. Bush had a meeting at Camp David with his top advisors, including Colin Powell, the secretary of state. And there was a lively debate about Iraq policy, in which some people from the Pentagon were arguing that the war against terrorism should include Saddam Hussein.
Elaine Sciolino /
Arguing
Debate
Hussein
Iraq
Lively
Pentagon
Policy
Saddam
Secretary
September
Terrorism
Weekend
War People Terrorism
Advisor
Attacks
David
Bush
Camp
Colin
Colin Powell
George
George W
George W. Bush
Include
Meeting
Saddam Hussein
Some People
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Even before September 11, there was a debate in the administration about whether or not military force should be used to oust Saddam Hussein. You're not going to find one person in the top echelons of the foreign policy and national security establishment in the U.S. government who's going to say that Saddam Hussein should not be out of power.
Elaine Sciolino /
Administration
Debate
Foreign Policy
Hussein
Military Force
National Security
Saddam
September
Saddam Hussein
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