Treading Perrier
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Treading Perrier
by Isabel Ortiz
Don't
Ask, Don't Tell.
Every
cloud has a silver lining.
There
are two sides to every story.
And
for every f... |
23-04-2008
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 | Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz. Fast Food. The French proudly frown upon the admittedly disgusting phenomenon known as fast food, even as thousands of them line up from one end o... |
25-03-2008
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 | Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz The Twilight Zone. When I look at my plane tickets, I know exactly where I’ve come from and where I am. But sometimes when I look around ... |
19-03-2008
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 | Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz Blackberries and Blueteeth. Here in Paris, over 5,000 miles from my home in California, it’s easy to forget some of the little annoyances back... |
11-03-2008
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 | Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz Beware the Visigoths. Look to you left. Look to your right. Chances are that at least one of those people sitting next to you is a d... |
04-03-2008
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 | Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz Office Environment. Before arriving in France, I had heard over and over how environmentally conscious and conscientious the French are. Compared... |
21-02-2008
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 | Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz Border Crossings. I was recently in Berlin for a short business trip. I thought I was going for a two-day visit, but in that short period, inad... |
12-02-2008
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 | Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz Three-Hour Tour. I was recently introduced to the mysterious world of the long-term expat, something that each of you should think about, because it c... |
29-01-2008
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 | Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz The Precious Metals in my Purse. I’ve mentioned before how my background as an economist makes me see the world around me through different eye... |
23-01-2008
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 | Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz Office Politikkks: Psychos, fascists and FN at the office. “You know, Mussolini didn’t just make the trains run on time. The buses,... |
08-01-2008
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 | Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz Numbers Girl. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been a numbers girl, which is one of the 8,742 reasons I became an economist in ... |
01-01-2008
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 | Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz C’est pas grave. Language acquisition is a constant exercise of trial and error. An infant babbles until she hits on a particular so... |
26-12-2007
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 | Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz Why we gripe: a manifesto Some of my friends back home have been reading my Treading Perrier column on Hobo In Paris and, picking up on a certain degr... |
18-12-2007
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 | Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz Retirement We’ve heard a lot about the French retirement system lately, since the reform of that system was the reason for the crippling s... |
11-12-2007
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Treading Perrier
by Isabel Ortiz.
A taxing situation:
overseas Americans answer to two taxmen instead of one.
As a
dual-national Mexican-American living and working abroad... |
04-12-2007
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 | Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz Magic words: why Harry Potter should have been French. In learning any foreign language, you can tell when you have made a significant breakthrough fr... |
27-11-2007
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 | Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz The Strike: Marx rolls over in his grave It might come as a surprise to some that those behind the current strike actually believe that it is target... |
20-11-2007
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Treading Perrier
by Isabel Ortiz
Grimace: How to speak French without saying a word.
As
you may already know,
I have made many embarrassing errors while learnin... |
13-11-2007
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 | Yoda: How to speak French like a complete alien. Like many people of my generation, I grew up with a big brother who was utterly obsessed with Star Wars. However, unfortunately ... |
06-11-2007
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 | No Smoking: Are counter-revolutionary forces afoot? It has now been nine months since the smoking ban went into effect in French workplaces. Speaking as a non-smoker who enjoy... |
29-10-2007
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