EURO DISNEYLAND, OR HOW THE AMERICAN DREAM LEARNED TO SAY “BONJOUR” WHILE STILL SPEAKING DOLLAR Marne-la-Vallée, France — In the year 1992, when the Iron Curtain was still fluttering in the breeze and “globalization” just sounded like a fancy French verb, Mickey Mouse parachuted into Europe with a pair of white gloves and a corporate…
Fireball Over France: A Cosmic Flash Mob Rehearses the End Times By L. Marlowe, International Affairs Desk (and part-time meteorite chaser) PARIS—At 21:43 local time on Tuesday, the skies above the Dordogne briefly resembled a deleted scene from a Christopher Nolan film. A neon-green fireball, described by witnesses as “a dragon’s sneeze” and by astronomers…
The EuroMillions lottery—Europe’s weekly exercise in collective delusion—draws punters from nine countries who hand over small change in exchange for the statistically negligible possibility that their lives will suddenly resemble a private-jet commercial. Every Tuesday and Friday night the continent pauses, breath baited, to discover which accidental plutocrat will be granted the GDP of a…
