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Posts tagged as “Paris”

L’Amour est plus fort que la haine… et, apparemment, que l’Islam

No matter how oppressed some of us may feel by the sometimes radical statements and legislation of South Dakota's Christian fundamentalists, let us remember that our Christian friends don't kill us. Gunmen attacked the Paris headquarters of French satirical weekly…

Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity on Bikes in Paris

The Tour de France concludes here in Paris tomorrow morning... after my plane leaves. I rode a bus yesterday down the Champs Élysées, I returned later and walked by the finish line where the well-to-do will sit in white tents…

Eiffel Tower Totally Beats Hype: Let’s Go!

We've all seen the Eiffel Tower in photos and film. The grand industrial-engineering-art project is so familiar that we might be tempted to think seeing the Tower in person could be a let down. We would be wrong. I spent…

Heidelberger in Paris, Enjoying Art, Architecture, Puns

Did I mention I'm in Paris? Here I am at the Louvre, with our guy Pei's great glass pyramid out front. The drastic contrast the the architecture of the old fortress still doesn't well with some observers. But it creates…