PARIS News, Nov 12, 2011

Klinsmann experiments yield mixed bag ESPN Jacques Demarthon/AFP/Getty Images A right fullback with club team Nuremberg, Timothy Chandler has emerged as a solid choice on the left side of defense within Jurgen Klinsmann's setup. Chandler, possessing the speed of a winger, found himself in ... See all stories on this topic »

New Paris Photo Course for Aspiring Lenses About - News & Issues By Courtney Traub, About.com Guide November 12, 2011 Something a bit different fortoday: I know a lot of you enjoy taking photos of Paris, and some of you are serious about developing your photographic skills. So I was intrigued to see that a new ... See all stories on this topic »

Federer, Tsonga reach Paris final USA Today PARIS (AP) – Roger Federer played a masterful match against Tomas Berdych to set up a Paris Masters final against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who saved three match points against American John Isner on Saturday. By Jacques DeMarthon, AFP/Getty Images Roger ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

Bringing the War Home New York Times More Photos » Breaking news about the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia and more. A sortable calendar of noteworthy cultural events in the New York region, selected by Times critics. The museum is in a cool, detached building. ... See all stories on this topic »

Spanish conservatives head for power by default The Guardian Real Democracy Now! protesters at the Puerta del Sol square in Madrid. But the movement's momentum has not led to an election challenge to the Socialist party and conservatives. Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/GettyImages Six months ago, ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Rediff.com » Sports » Paris Masters: Bopanna-Qureshi continue dream run, enter ... Rediff Rohan Bopanna [ Images ] and his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi [ Images ] are one step away from winning their third ATP title of the season as they stormed into the final of the Paris Masters after edging past Max Mirnyi [ Images ] and Daniel ... See all stories on this topic »

Social dramas in touch with reality Montreal Gazette By BILL BROWNSTEIN, The Gazette November 12, 2011 The title could conjure upimages of a National Geographic travelogue. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Or, possibly, a French remake of the 1952 American flick of the same title, ... See all stories on this topic »

Twilight star Robert Pattinson takes one more big bite at Edward The Daily Telegraph (AP Photo/Summit Entertainment, Andrew Cooper) Source: The Sunday Telegraph Robert Pattinson attends 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2' Premiere at Cinema Gaumont Capucine on October 23, 2011 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le... See all stories on this topic »

My Father's Secret: What He Couldn't Tell Me About The War Huffington Post We would fly to Paris, visit Normandy and the landing beaches, make a circuit of the Somme River Valley, and end our trip in Clastres for the commemorative events. I thought to myself: Now. Finally. We will talk about these things. ... See all stories on this topic »

Broadcast glut in Gaul? Variety By Elsa Keslassy PARIS -- When pay TV giant Canal Plus announced it was stepping into the free digital terrestrial television market with Bollore Media's channels Direct 8 and Direct Star, it rocked the French TV community and made the bosses of ... See all stories on this topic »

Nicole Taylor, star of Beach Town Castanet.net With Jackson's mother and siblings watching from the courtroom gallery, Walgren showed a photo of Jackson at his last rehearsal before thepicture of the three Jackson children, Prince, Paris and Blanket, at their father's memorial. ... See all stories on this topic » Castanet.net

“Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie — A Tale of Love and Fallout” by Lauren ... Washington Post Its textured cover, luminescent colors and oversize dimensions generated a feeling that I hadn't felt since I was a child: that anticipatory thrill as you prepare to turn the pages of a new book and savor each picture and its accompanying text. ... See all stories on this topic »

Pippa Middleton and Alex Loudon romance runs into trouble: Who'll court her next? Daily Mail You can see the emotional dynamic in those perky pictures of Pippa a couple of weeks ago in her low-cut red dress being raised aloft by children's party entertainer Charlie 'Sharky' Astor at the Boodles Boxing Ball in London. ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

The natural The Age Photo: Getty Images Bubba Watson is shaking up the game of golf, and he's having a real ball doing it. BUBBA Watson has had some time off, had a holiday in Bora Bora and did not pick up a club for a month. He likes the fact it's made him hungry to play ... See all stories on this topic » The Age

Paris retrospective celebrates ad man Goude BusinessWeek A new retrospective at Paris' Arts Decoratifs museum shores up that conclusion. With hundreds of drawings, sketches, photo collages, videos and installations that include a life-size steam engine made of wood, "Goudemalion" traces the evolution of his ... See all stories on this topic »

Rebirth of chic TODAYonline To keep abreast of trends, the design team combs through trade expos and routinely embarks on jaunts to cities like Paris, London, New York and Amsterdam to evaluate fashion currents. Years of experience have honed her sensibilities to the point where ... See all stories on this topic »

2011 SLIFF Preview | Sarah Boslaugh Play by Play Everyone's seen the photos of the Pruitt-Igoe houses imploding, but what led up to that point? The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (11/12 Washington U./Brown 3 pm), examines that question in a documentary that pairs white-screen interviews of former residents with a ... See all stories on this topic »

Symbol of a new generation Cyprus Mail About twice a year for the past couple of years, this Limassol native has gone to a concert somewhere in Europe, armed with a digital camera, taken thousands of photos then selected the two dozen or so which “say what I want to say best”. ... See all stories on this topic » Cyprus Mail

Does Turkey's decline mean Guus Hiddink has lost his golden touch? The Guardian (blog) Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images He is the answer to the most exotic of football trivia questions: which football man is an honorary citizen of Seoul, whose face has adorned stamps in Sydney, a coach whose players heralded his influence with ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

Balcony Reads Outlook Taking up Mother India, Awaara and Pyaasa next, Nasreen reveals with delight that some of the books are now being studied in advanced Urdu and Hindi classes at Harvard, Tokyo and Paris Universities. Currently, though, she is savouring another ... See all stories on this topic »

UW Cinematheque leads a growing downtown film scene Isthmus Motion pictures are almost by definition collaborative, but now the director's intent was parsed out and heralded. With movies newly identified as celluloid canvases produced by master artists, in the 1960s campuses nationwide exploded with film ... See all stories on this topic » Isthmus

From 'freedom fighters' in the West Bank to dancers in France, photographer ... TODAYonline In 2003, he decided to learn from the best and got a gig at the famous photography agency Magnum Photos in Paris. For four months, Yian learned the ropes as a lowly "stage" ("intern" in French), where he would print out other people's works. ... See all stories on this topic »

The Sadness of Pencils: Art, Ethics, and a Recipe for Baba Ghanoush Raise the Hammer There will be no charge today. Here's some fresh pita, still warm from the oven, to enjoy with your baba ghanoush should you get peckish during your visit." But I didn't have the picture with me. It would have been sweet if I had, that's for sure. ... See all stories on this topic » Raise the Hammer

Tour Auto: En route to 2012 Classic Driver The organisers of the Tour Auto Optic 2ooo have now confirmed next year's route. Held from 16-21 April 2012, the field of more than 200 classics will travel from Paris to Nice. After scrutineering in Paris's Grand Palais, the cars will set off from ... See all stories on this topic » Classic Driver

Zapatero's strategy for Spain: stay out of the news The Guardian (blog) Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images Keep your head down and stay calm. As strategies go, it gains in simplicity what it lacks in sophistication. Spain has clung to the idea that keeping its head down and saying what the markets want to hear ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

Paul McCarthy: 'I had this thing about exposing the interior of the body' The Guardian Today they make perfect movie doubles for Beverly Hills. I am proudly shown the garden where the Steve Martin picture Father Of The Bride was filmed. Crossing the LA river back into the larger city, the film memories are unavoidable: that concrete ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Surviving F1's roulette wheel and thriving Hindustan Times ... first official motor race was held in 1894, from Paris to Rouen in France. The industry reportedly accounts for 70 to 80 percent of the total sponsorship in motorsports today. http : / / www . hindustantimes . com /Images / HTEditImages / Images / See all stories on this topic » Hindustan Times

Antony exhibiting art in LA, Radio City tickets on sale Brooklyn Vegan (blog) Antony's work emerges from a set of rituals such as washing and burning paper or engaging in repetitive mark-making as well as cutting, tearing and sewing found images. Hammer Projects: Antony is his first one-person museum exhibition in the US and ... See all stories on this topic » Brooklyn Vegan (blog)

Meet the Ad Men Behind Occupy Wall Street The Plank on TNR.com (blog) The tactical theory behind the magazine was to use the methods andimages of mainstream advertising to achieve the countercultural ends of Lasn and his compatriots. The actual term they use for this practice is “culture jamming” (readers and followers, ... See all stories on this topic » The Plank on TNR.com (blog)

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Italian PM Berlusconi likely to resign today News Tribe By Ubaid Mughal - Nov 13th, 2011 (No Comment) Rome: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is supposed to resign on Saturday after the lower chamber of the parliament passed a set of reforms, paving way for an emergency government and ending the ... See all stories on this topic »