Elaine Sciolino
Elaine Sciolino
Elaine Sciolino is a writer and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times, writing from France since 2002. Her new book, "The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs" will be published by W.W. Norton & Co. in November 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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Even before September 11, there was a debate in the administration about whether or not military force should be used to oust Saddam Hussein. You're not going to find one person in the top echelons of the foreign policy and national security establishment in the U.S. government who's going to say that Saddam Hussein should not be out of power.
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The position of vice president does not exist in France; neither does a role comparable that of the first lady of the United States.
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I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American.
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France has become the second-largest consumer of pizza per person, per pound, in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Italy.
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Colin Powell has said over the years that Saddam Hussein is like a toothache. It recurs from time to time, and you just have to live with it. At other times, he's compared Saddam Hussein to a kidney stone that will eventually pass. But he has never said, 'You have to operate and take out the kidney stone.'
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In 1991, only two years into the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice suddenly left her powerful job as the top Russia expert on the National Security Council and went back to California - to get a life.
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Paris will give bicyclists more rights when it installs 4,300 signs throughout the city, allowing them to barrel though red lights and turn right on red.