by Minter Dial | Feb 11, 2007 | Travel
I read the IHT (Jan 26 2007) advertised section promoting “doing business in France.” The following excerpt caught my attention about the notoriety of the Grandes Ecoles: “Grands Ecoles: Great schools leading to great jobs… Ms. XXX arrived at...
by Minter Dial | Feb 8, 2007 | Entertainment
Reunions crossing the Atlantic I have just come back from celebrating my 25th school reunion at Eton… and what a grand experience it was. The usual trepidations, unfamiliar faces mixed with completely recognizable ones (who don’t seem to have aged one...
by Minter Dial | Feb 1, 2007 | Health
For a country that has seen women smokers double since the 60s to 22% of all adults, France has finally come around to banning smoking in the workplace. Funnily enough, yesterday, when going into a few offices, I saw colleagues taking their last ceremonious smoke...
by Minter Dial | Jan 30, 2007 | Travel
This was a perfectly trendy restaurant in Notting Hill, London, and, with a happy air, we all ordered our choices off the menu. Only upon further review did I notice a few oddities. Was it a French restaurant in London run by the Chinese? An English owner who had...
by Minter Dial | Jan 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
Probably not many of us still around who love Ayn Rand, but I believe that her philosophies (determinism, objectivism…) remain appropriate and valid; even if the writing style has aged. The Fountainhead is a delightful novel and Howard Roark’s discipline...
How do I delete all my photos from Google Photos (in bulk) without deleting my Google account?
