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Sarah_in_USA

Sarah_in_USA
Location
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Birthday
October 27
Bio
Former Educational Director at the Allliance Francaise de Washington (DC), in the US since 1995 and loving it. Writer (in French and English): poetry, prose and blogs. Founder of "Avid Readers in DC: a book club aiming at introducing American Literature to the French expat community.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008 7:33PM

The Europeans...

It is after all the title of one of Henry James' novels (one of my favorite books by this author). They also made a rather intimate movie out of the book. But tonight I wonder what would James do (or think or even more write) if he had had access to…

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008 5:41PM

Thoughts Since I Cannot Speak

In bed for 4 days now with fever, strep throat and penicillin, the only thing left for me to do is to read and think.

The first thought that hit me while reading the accumulated Washington Post: why should the federal government bail out the auto industry? Apart from the humanistic reasons
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NOVEMBER 14, 2008 5:58PM

Le Figaro

I am not the only one concerned by Rahm Emanuel 's position as Obama's Chief of Staff. This article forwarded to me by a friend, was published in the Figaro today and goes along the lines of my blog.

Rahm Emanuel apologized for the very anti-Arab comments made by his dad (who…

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NOVEMBER 10, 2008 7:07PM

Happy But Concerned

Of course I am happy that Barack Obama is our new President. Of course I am proud too. But I am also concerned.

Of course choosing Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff is a smart move in as much as he is a dedicated Democrat and has a long resume to prove…

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008 7:15PM

A Meaningful Sentence

I read this sentence twice in the last 48 hours and I wish I knew who wrote it so that i could acknowledge the source.

In any case, it is too beautiful a sentence to not share it, so there it goes:

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008 6:55PM

Yes We Can!


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NOVEMBER 6, 2008 6:52PM

Yes We Will!


We will because Yes, We Can"!
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NOVEMBER 6, 2008 6:49PM

The Blue Waves


Manassas Park. Obama's Last Rally, Monday, November 3, 2008.
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NOVEMBER 6, 2008 6:46PM

The Sign As a Shout

Obama Rally in Manassas, Monday, November 3, 2008: the rally began with a moment of meditation for some, prayer for others, in remembrance of Obama's grandmother who had passed away the night before and who would not see her grandson elected President.
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NOVEMBER 6, 2008 6:39PM

The Meaning of Obama's Last Rally: Reading Between The Lines

Manassas Park is a tiny dot on the US map, a tiny dot abutted to another city, also called Manassas. Manassas Park means nothing to someone living outside the US but “Manassas†means so much to the American collective psyche.

Its contemporary outlook of never-ending shopping malls, large highways…

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NOVEMBER 1, 2008 11:33AM

SATURDAY RANT

It is one of these beautiful autumn Saturdays, temperature around 67 F, the sun is shining and the colors of the Indian Summer are magnificently displaying their charms... 

 I am stuck again cleaning up after the renovation works, or rather moving the mess from the make-up storage room that the livi… Read full post »
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OCTOBER 29, 2008 11:39PM

The Mevlevi Sufi Whirling Dervishes

Amazing evening at the National Cathedral tonight: Faruk Celebi Efendi, the twenty-second great- grandson of Rumi (Who does not feel a chill along one's spine at the idea that they are meeting or seeing or hearing or all of the above the actual descendant of an actual confirmed mystic such as…

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OCTOBER 22, 2008 12:33PM

Beyond DSK's sexual affairs...

Whatever DSK's reputation or his life style (only those who have not sinned can throw the first stone, remember?), I am more than intrigued at the fact that the whistle-blower may have had unavowed motives.
Indeed, if one considers the fact that DSK is Jewish and that A. Shakour Shaalan is Egyptian…

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OCTOBER 20, 2008 6:59PM

Religulous

Bill Maher's documentary about religions and religious people was very disappointing. I expected a deeper approach and not this simplistic Borat-like version. To tell the truth, it was so repetitive that i almost fell asleep!

It is so easy to take as targets people who are less educated, whose educati/…

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JUNE 11, 2008 7:30PM

HOORAH FOR OBAMA!




He made it! Thus History is made too: I am trying hard to juggle my memory and find another Western / First World country in which there would have been a non-White person running for presidency, but I can't find any.

Hopefully, this will be proof to some embittered, anti-American, inhabitants
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MAY 6, 2008 8:17PM

IN SEXO VERITAS?

When writers tackle sex in their writings, it instantly becomes a hot (no pun intended) conversation topic amongst the mere mortals that we are!

The reader is either enthralled…or enraged. It is almost as if books about sex (novels, poems, or essays) have the ultimate capacity to raise our adrenalin
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APRIL 1, 2008 6:05PM

Cherry Blossom Festival 2008: The Hidden Face


One million persons on the Mall, Saturday March 29, 2008 for the Kite Festival and the opening of the Cherry Blossom Festival...The line was long for the Women's restrooms!
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