The Legal Research Society

To round off the year with a light and entertaining last movie night, on Wednesday 17th of December from 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm in TAYLOR C11 (opposite to Taylor library entry) the LRS will screen “ Le Dîner de cons” ( The Dinner of Idiots ), a French comedy of the year 1998. Imagine your friend takes you to a nice dinner of a bunch of people, but the thing you don't know is that your freakiness and originality are supposed to make for a big laugh for the people around you. If you thought the French are not good at making comedies Le Dîner de cons will make you think again. The film won three awards (best actor, best supporting actor, best producer) at the national film award of France César Award in 1999. You are very welcome to come along and enjoy the movie and the refreshments.

Last week the Wall Street Journal($) ran an interesting article by David Gauthier-Villars on French involvement in Africa via its secretive African Cell. French paratroopers ambushed rebels, but the French people and press weren't told about it until weeks after the fact. Here's the relevant excerpt: On the evening of March 4, 10 French paratroopers reached Birao, Central African Republic, and dropped near an airstrip captured by rebel militia. The paratroopers ambushed the rebels, killing several and reclaiming the airport for the government. In France, neither the public nor parliament was informed of the attack for three weeks. Coordinating the mission was the "Cellule Africaine," a three-person office nestled behind the Elysée, France's presidential palace. This wasn't the first time the office has been involved in the Central African Republic's internal affairs: In 1979, France toppled the former colony's self-proclaimed emperor and reinstalle...