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[**] The ’second-term curse’ 4Le nouveau défi d’Obama

[*] Finding your Toronto 6Suivez le guide !

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Dentists in the US say theyare dealing with a surge inyoung patients who wanttemporary vampire-style

fangs installed. Twilight fans are paying about US$200for the "vampire veneers" — an aesthetic enhancementof the canines, making them longer and sharper.

to deal, dealt, dealt with faire face à / surge augmentation soudaine / fang croc

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2. crikey (fam.) mince alors / Britishism anglicisme, anglaisbritannique / snippet extrait, ici mot/expression / vernacularlangue vernaculaire / cheers salut (également merci,tchin, etc) / greeting sa lut(ation) / loo (GB) toilettes /

bathroom (US) toilettes / steak and kidney pie tourte aux rognons / shore rivage, ici pays /

to crop up surgir, apparaître.

3. mate (fam.) copain, pote / to rent louer / flat (GB)= apartment (US) appartement / holiday (GB) = vacation(US) / it is fair to ask on peut se demander à juste titre.

4. shift changement / arguably sans doute, peut-être /livestream diffusion en direct (sur internet) / bor der less sansfrontières / to track traquer, suivre / gossip potins, rumeurs/ Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares Cauchemar en cuisine /Northeast Corridor ligne ferroviaire de voyageurs la plusimportante des États-Unis, allant de Boston à Washington/ influencer personne influente.

5. pretension prétention / instance exemple, cas / tosimmer mijoter, couver / striver personne qui se batpour réussir, qui trime / to bubble over déborder / full-fledged(US)= fully-fledged (GB) à part entière, véritable, total.

6. to get, got, got sick en avoir assez / to deliver prononcer.

7. hip branché / phrase expression / ubiquitous omniprésent/ to absolve absoudre, disculper / worry inquiétude,souci / smart-set chic, sophistiqué, branché / bunchgroupe, clique.

8. deep profond / root racine / Briton Britannique / to waftacross traverser (to waft flotter dans l’air) / to be therage faire fureur.9. swirl tourbillon.

striver classes bubbling over into full-fledged

imitation – or in the view of British observers,

parody.

6. “I’m getting sick of my investment banking clients

saying ‘cheers’ to me,” said Euan Rellie, a

socially prominent British-born finance executive

in New York. “Americans say ‘cheers’ like Dick

Van Dyke in ‘Mary Poppins,’ with too much

enthusiasm. It must be delivered laconically.”

To be hip7. Some phrases that were rarely heard five

or 10 years ago suddenly seem ubiquitous. The

absolving term “no worries” has all but replaced “no

problem” for smart-set Americans under 40. This

is the same bunch who has started saying “queue”

instead of “line”.

Lost and found8. Something often gets lost in the translation.

For example, there’s “chat up,” which means

‘flirting with intention to bed’, but is used in the U.S.

to mean ‘talk to.’ This is a contemporary tic with deep

roots, of course. Americans do, after all, speak

English (although some Britons might disagree).

British phrases have been wafting across the

Atlantic since tricorn hats were the rage, as

have British books and, in recent decades, TV

shows and pop records.

9. Americans now live in a swirl of Ricky

Gervais, Simon Cowell, Russell Brand and

Adele, said John McWhorter, who teaches

linguistics at Columbia University. “We have

a generation of, essentially, adults who grew up on

Harry Potter,” he said, adding, “The British accent

is just in our ears. We can hear Great Britain in a way

that we couldn’t hear it even 10 years ago.” ●

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Mitt Romney is not the “bumbling toff”

he’s made out to be, wrote an American

journalist in a recent Daily Beast article.

The latest iPad is a “lovely piece of kit,” in the

words of John Scalzi, an American science-fiction

author writing in his blog, Whatever.

Anglocreep2. Crikey, Britishisms are everywhere. Snippets

of British vernacular – “cheers” as a greeting,

“brilliant” as an affirmative, “loo” as a bathroom –

that were until recently as rare as steak and kidney

pie on these shores are cropping up in the daily

speech of Americans, particularly New Yorkers.

3. The next time an American “mate” asks you to

“ring” her on her “mobile” about renting your

“flat” during your “holiday,” it’s fair to ask, have we

all become Madonna?

The whole picture4. Perhaps it is a reflection of a larger cultural

shift. Arguably, the distance between Britain and

the United States is as small as it has ever been. In

an age of BBC livestreams and borderless websites,

Americans track the Middletons in near-real time

via British gossip sites,

absorb the Queen’s

English through televised

imports like “Ramsay’s

Kitchen Nightmares” and

“Doctor Who,” and take in

newspapers like The

Guardian, now considered

must-reads for many Northeast Corridor influencers,

via their iPad apps over “a coffee.”

5. Or maybe it’s just pretension, an instance of long-

simmering Anglophilia among the American

RETOUR A L’ENVOYEUR. Jusque dans les années 2000,parler un anglais ponctué d’américanismes semblait plusmoderne, plus branché, y compris en Grande-Bretagne.La tendance s’inverse aujourd’hui et le vocabulaire bri-tannique retraverse l’Atlantique, parfois en y perdant unpeu de son sens ! Il y a de quoi y perdre son latin…

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5. Presidents also select the best members

of the White House staff or cabinet when they

first take office. When the pressure cooker of

Washington or better jobs lead those first

choices away, their successors are often not

their equals.

Too much faith?6. Overwhelming victory can often lead

to second-term hubris, persuading a president

that the country thinks he can do no wrong.

As Lou Cannon, the Reagan biographer and

Washington Post White House reporter,

observed: “Landslides are dangerous to the

victor.”

7. Second-term presidents are also lame

ducks, parrying ambitious would-be successors

in the opposition and in their own party.

Dwight Eisenhower often complained of

the recently enacted 22nd Amendment,

limiting presidents to two terms. But earlier

presidents faced the same problem, because

tradition back to George Washington had

established the same term limit, until

Roosevelt ran for his third term.

to overcome, came, come vaincre, triompher de /sluggish languissant / challenge défi, ici difficulté / withdeep roots profondément enraciné, ancré.

2. truism truisme, lieu commun / domestically sur leplan national / Iran-contra scandale politique qui auraitautorisé la vente d’armes à l’Iran contre la mise en libertéd’otages américains et versé une partie des revenusde ces opérations aux contras (contre-révolutionnaires)du Nicaragua / to impeach mettre en accusationun élu devant le Congrès (procédure de destitution)/ to resign démissionner / to avoid éviter / fate sort.

3. failure échec / proud fier / to shadow jeter une ombresur, assombrir, éclipser / tinge nuance, touche, pointe.

4. scholar universitaire, spécialiste / to push promouvoir,tenter d’imposer / set ensemble.

5. pressure cooker cocotte-minute, (fig.) tensions,pressions.

6. faith foi, ici confiance / overwhelming écrasant /hubris outrecuidance, présomption / landslide raz demarée, victoire écrasante / victor vainqueur.

7. lame duck “canard boiteux”, élu occupant sesfonctions jusqu’à l’arrivée de son successeur, ici“président de transition” (ne pouvant plus sereprésenter) / to parry parer (une attaque), contrer/ would-be aspirant, candidat / to enact promulguer/ to run, ran, run se présenter, être candidat (élections).

The ‘second-term curse’La malédiction du second mandat

PHENOMENE ETRANGE. On imagine qu’un second mandat à la tête du pays le plus puissantdu monde pourrait enfin laisser les coudées franches à l’heureux élu. C’est pourtant loin d’être lecas. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton ou encore George W. Bush s’y sont cassé les dents. Barack Obama saura-t-il rompre cette malédiction ?

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JON MEACHAMCLYMER

WWASHINGTON – Now that President

Barack Obama has overcome Mitt

Romney and a sluggish economy, he

faces a challenge with deep roots in political

history: what historians and commentators

call the “second-term curse.”

2. It is almost a truism that second terms are

less successful than first terms, especially

domestically. Ronald Reagan faced the 1986

Iran-contra scandal. Bill Clinton was impeached

in 1998. Richard Nixon resigned to avoid that fate

in 1974.

3. But despite these and other failures, most

second-term presidents also have accomplishments

to be proud of, though perhaps shadowed by a

tinge of failure.

Why?4. Stephen Hess, a scholar at the Brookings

Institution and a veteran of the Eisenhower,

Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations, said there

were several explanations for the second-term

curse. One is that presidents try to push their best

ideas when they first take office, often leaving

them, he said, without “a whole new set of

ideas” for the second.

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9. abroad à l’étranger / to balance équilibrer / toachieve accomplir, réaliser / to halt stopper,mettre un terme à / NATO OTAN / impeachment(procédure de) destitution / scar cicatrice, icitraumatisme / issue question, sujet / House= Houseof Representatives Chambre des représentants /midterm elections (US) élections de mi-mandat(présidentiel) qui renouvelle un tiers du Sénat, latotalité de la Chambre des Représentants etdésigne les gouverneurs de certains Etats.

10. to fail to achieve ne pas atteindre, ne pas réaliser/ goal but, objectif / to overhaul refondre,remanier / tax code code des impôts / increaseaugmentation / AIDS sida / stimulus measuremesure de relance / substantial important / to rescuesauver / mortgage crédit immobilier / messpagaille, bourbier, catastrophe.

11. to foreshorten raccourcir, amputer / inaugurationinvestiture / to withdraw, drew, drawn retirer / torelease libérer / Secretary of State (US) ministredes Affaires étrangères / shuttle diplomacynavette diplomatique (négociations menées parun émissaire qui fait la navette entre les partiesconcernées) / fall (US) = autumn (GB) / tooverthrow, threw, thrown renverser / Chile Chili/ signal ici éclatant.

12. troubles difficultés / to offset, set, set compenser/ to close ici combler / loophole vide juridique /savings économies / to lower abaisser.

13. willing disposé, prêt, décidé / deeplyprofondément / partisan partisan (partial) / to copewith faire face à / snarky sarcastique, critique, irascible/ to glare at lancer des regards furieux à, braquerles yeux sur / to magnify amplifier.

WHO’S WHO IN TEAM OBAMAsenior principal / adviser conseiller / balanceéquilibre / quietly discrètement / effective efficace/ bunch foule / stat= statistics / sheet feuille, fiche/ weapon arme.

8. But are second terms inevitably cursed?

Eisenhower, who easily won re-election, was

embarrassed when a U-2 spy plane was shot

down over the Soviet Union in 1960 and Nikita

Khrushchev scuttled a Paris summit meeting

in response. But Eisenhower kept the peace with

the Soviet Union, an accomplishment hardly

predictable in the '50s.

Here and abroad9. For Clinton, there was the first balanced

budget in decades, achieved in 1997 because

Republicans wanted an accomplishment that

they, too, could claim. And Clinton gained

international respect for forcing the Serbs to

halt a genocidal campaign in Kosovo without

putting NATO troops on the ground. But

impeachment was a grave scar, not only for

him but for his accusers as well. Months of

debate over the issue led to Democratic

gains in the House in the midterm 1998

elections.

10. Bush failed to achieve many

legislative goals – privatizing Social

Security, liberalizing immigration

and overhauling the tax code. But he

did win a vast increase in spending on

AIDS treatment and prevention in

Africa and a modest stimulus measure in 2008.

And his most substantial achievement was the

Troubled Assets Relief Program, a $700 billion

program to rescue banks caught in the subprime

mortgage mess.

11. Nixon achieved little domestically in his

foreshortened second term. But after the Paris Peace

Accords were signed just after his second

inauguration in 1973, U.S. troops were withdrawn

from Vietnam and prisoners of war were released.

In the Middle East, Secretary of State Henry

Kissinger’s shuttle diplomacy that fall ended

the Arab-Israeli war. Nixon also believed that

the role of the United States in overthrowing

President Salvador Allende of Chile was a signal

success, though today it seems a grave mistake.

12. For Reagan, the troubles of his second term

were offset by the 1986 tax law, which closed

loopholes and used the savings to lower tax

rates, and his arms control agreements with

Mikhail S. Gorbachev of the Soviet Union.

Challenges13. Presidents cannot control everything in

their second terms, and Obama

has a few obstacles that are

special to him. The president

and Congress must be willing to

work together, which in a deeply

partisan Washington may be

difficult to accomplish in the

next four years. And like other

modern presidents, Obama must

cope with a “snarky” media, said Richard Norton

Smith, a George Mason University scholar, which

glare at a president, magnifying anything that looks

like success, or, especially, failure. ●

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Are secondtermsinevitablycursed ?

Who’s Who in Team Obama

David PlouffePolitical strategist (and highly

paid public speaker) who was

Obama’s campaign manager

in 2008; now a senior Presi-

dential adviser at the White

House.

Joe BidenBrought in to add balance to

the Obama ticket. Biden has

been a quietly effective, if oc-

casionally undisciplined, vice-

president, compared by Obama

to a basketball player “who

does a bunch of things that

don’t show up in the stat sheet’.

Michelle ObamaOne of the few unqualified suc-

cesses of her husband’s ad-

ministration, the popular First

Lady has been a vital weapon

in the campaign.

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Enjeux, Culture,Découvertes

Des sujets variés pourretrouver tous

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The problem with writing about Toronto is

deciding which Toronto you’re going to

write about. Is it the Army-Surplus-Store,

hipster mishmash in Kensington Market,

where an abandoned car was long ago appropriated

as a streetside planter? Or the Distillery District,

where a renovated whiskey factory complex has

become the hottest condo-and-

shopping development in town?

2. Is it Old Toronto? The historic port

on Lake Ontario thrives at St.

Lawrence Market, the 9-acre

enclosed food pavilion where the top

seller for decades has been a back-

bacon sandwich — slabs of brine-

cured pork loin, slathered with Saskatchewan

mustard.

3. How about Chinese Toronto? The city has six

Chinatowns and several daily Chinese language

newspapers. Is it Greek Toronto? Italian Toronto?

Portuguese Toronto? They’re all here. “In America,

we say we’re a melting pot,” said an American friend

who lives in the city. “Canada describes itself as a

mosaic. That’s what Toronto’s all about.”

4. The city’s core is pedestrian-friendly, safe and,

in the truest sense, multicultural. “We definitely

have our problems,” said Bruce Bell, a Toronto

historian and author, “but we don’t have the kind

of racial divides you do in the States. For the most

part, we get along.”

History5. Bell has made a career out of bringing

Toronto’s past into the present. His walking tour

of Old Toronto focuses on St. Lawrence Market, built

partly from the remains of one of the town’s

early city halls. The market tour is full of pithy facts

and hidden treasures — and comes with a back-

bacon sandwich. Bell also operates tours

in Chinatown, the University of Toronto

and the Distillery District. The Royal

Ontario Museum is a natural history

grab-bag that unexpectedly hijacked my

attention for half a day; excellent option

for kids, too.

6. For a taste of upscale Toronto, head to

the Distillery District, where you’ll find sleek

restaurants and cafes, high-end design stores

and swanky galleries.

Getting around7. Toronto is Canada’s biggest city, but its

population is often described as 2.5 million.

Don’t be fooled. The total metro area is closer to

6 million. And “one-third of the population of

Canada lives within a 100-mile radius,” said

historian Bell. Greater Toronto sprawls, but the core

is surprisingly compact and very pedestrian-

friendly. I traveled mostly by foot, with the

subway ($2.75 a ride) my other primary mode

of transportation. ●

hipster branché / mishmash méli-mélo, fouillis, bric-à-brac / planter bac à fleurs / factory usine, ici distil-lerie / hot à la mode, en vogue / condo=condominium immeuble d’appartements (en copro-priété) / development complexe immobilier, construc-tion.

2. to thrive, thrived or throve, thrived or thrivenprospérer, être florissant, ici très animé, trépidant /acre arpent (0,4 ha) / enclosed fermé, clos, couvert /slab tranche (épaisse) / brine-cured salé en saumure/ loin côte, longe (de porc) / to slather étaler (engrosse couche), tartiner.

4. core cœur, centre / pedestrian-friendly aménagé pour les piétons / true véritable, fidèle, ici littéral /definitely indubitablement / divide division, clivage /to get, got, got along (bien) s’entendre.

5. remains vestiges / city hall hôtel de ville /

grab-bag fourre-tout / unexpectedly de manière

inattendue, inopinément / to hijack détourner, ici

capter

6. taste goût, ici aperçu / upscale haut de gamme,

de luxe / to head se diriger, se rendre / sleek élégant,

chic / high-end haut de gamme, de luxe / swanky

luxueux, classe.

7. to fool tromper, leurrer, abuser / metro area métro-pole / radius rayon / to sprawl s’étendre de manièretentaculaire / subway (US)= underground (GB) métro/ ride trajet / primary principal.

Finding your Toronto Les multiples facettes de Toronto

VISITE GUIDEE. Se promener sur une plage au bord du lac Ontario, grimper dans la tour

CN et contempler la ville 350 mètres plus bas, bruncher dans le quartier branché de la

Distillerie sur fond de jazz… Les possibilités ne manquent pas à Toronto. Voici quelques

pistes à explorer qui ne vous donneront qu’une seule envie : partir !

Finding your TorontoTOURISME [* ]

MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE/MCT

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The city’s coreis pedestrian-friendly, safeandmulticultural

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the wall of one of our stores, and our customers

were very upset that we changed the color of the

wall. I thought it was a great lesson for us and for

me. We have to recognize that our customers feel

as if this store is their store. I don’t know how many

companies could paint a wall and customers would

feel as if they need to be consulted.

5. Why do some folks hate Starbucks so? H.S.:We have

a Twitter feed visible in our corporate office that

is unfiltered. So we are watching what people are

saying about Starbucks. From time to time I go over

and look at it, and it’s not always positive. I like

that. I can’t answer why people are so emotionally

linked to what we do or why they like or don’t like

us so much. I do like the fact that they’re talking

about us.

6. Starbucks is known for its corporate conscience.Is there something else in this area that you hope toaccomplish before you retire? H.S.: We are deeply in-

volved in micro loans with coffee farmers living

in emerging countries. When I look at the grow-

ing divide between the haves and have-nots in the

U.S., I’ve had conversations with leading financial

institutions to see if there’s a way that micro loans

or micro lending could potentially be created in

the U.S.

7. Describe Starbucks 40 years from now. H.S.:In 40 years,

the core of our mission will still be about achiev-

ing that fragile balance between profitability and so-

cial conscience. Without the latter, the former is un-

sustainable. ●

How has Starbucks changed American culture?HOWARD SCHULTZ: I would never be so bold

myself to say that. When I first discovered

in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my

trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for

America — a third place that had not existed be-

fore. Starbucks re-created that in America in our

own image; a place to go other than home or work.

We also created an industry that did not exist: spe-

cialty coffee.

2. At age 40, is Starbucks showing wrinkles?H.S.: Over the past 18 months, the company has

transformed itself through reinvention. New store

design. New products. Via. Mobile payment. EGift-

ing. We’re more relevant in social and digital me-

dia. Over the past 18 months, we’ve become more

relevant to our core customer and younger audi-

ence. The maturation of the company has enabled

this. These are the best of times for Starbucks.

3. You redesigned the logo to expand the brand in newdirections. What are they? H.S.: In addition to a na-

tional footprint in retail stores, we’re developing

a world-class consumer products business that will

give us the capability to build brands and distrib-

ute them ourselves into grocery stores. By the end

of 2011, besides the rewards you get on the Star-

bucks Cards in Starbucks stores, you’ll get them at

the grocery store.

4. Why are people so passionate about loving — or hat-ing — Starbucks? H.S.: Twenty years ago, we repainted

1. bold audacieux, effronté.

2. wrinkle ride / relevant pertinent, adapté, en adé-quation (avec) / core cœur, noyau (dur), ici principal /to enable permettre.

3. footprint empreinte, ici présence / retail store maga-sin, commerce de détail / world-class prestigieux, deréputation internationale / besides outre / rewardrécompense, gratification.

4. upset contrarié, irrité, fâché.

5. feed contenu, informations constamment mis(es)à jour / corporate de la société, de l’entreprise / tolink lier.

6. to retire prendre sa retraite / micro loan micro-crédit / divide clivage, fossé / the haves and have-nots les riches et les pauvres / leading principal /lending prêt(s)..

7. to achieve parvenir (à), atteindre / balance équi-libre / profitability rentabilité / the former/the lat-ter le premier/le second / unsustainable ruineuxà long terme, non viable.

DU GRAIN A MOUDRE. Nous vous proposons dans ce numéroun entretien accordé par le PDG de Starbucks au quotidienaméricain USA Today. Cette société ayant connu quelquesdéboires par le passé et ayant fêté ses 40 ans l’an dernierest résolument tournée vers l’avenir et n’entend pas seconfiner au café…

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T E S TLes expressions idiomatiques

TEST 1

TEST 2

EXPRESSIONSCACHÉESTEST 3

Réponses :I couldn’t care less

(cela ne me fait ni chaud ni froid)

he’d share his last crust

(il donnerait sa chemise)

to be over the moon

(être aux anges)

it was nice while it lasted

(les meilleures choses ont une fin)

I owe you big time

(je vous dois une fière chandelle)

NE PRENEZ PAS VOS JAMBES À VOTRE COU ! Les expressions idiomatiquessont peut-être ce qu’il y a de plus amusant à apprendre en anglais. Cestrois exercices, inspirés de notre Guide des expressions indispensablesvous permettront d’évaluer votre niveau. Ils sont simples comme bonjour !

Retrouvez les 5 expressions se cachant dans cette chaîne demots :

Icouldn’tcarelesshe’dsharehislastcrusttobeoverthemoonitwasnicewhileitlastedIoweyoubigtime

Retranscrivez en anglais correct les phrases suivantes :

a) It’s gonna rain.b) What’s this ? I dunno.c) I wanna talk to you.d) Gimme your phone number, please.e) He grabbed me by the collar and said: gotcha!

ANGLAIS CORRECT

Réponses :a) gonna = going to

b) dunno = don’t know

c) wanna = want to

d) gimme = give me

e) gotcha = I got you

LAURENT DEDRYVER

a) I’m not feeling well. I’ve beenb) He was so afraidc) It was so easy to do,d) On Saturday evening we decidede) She’s so touchy that you should

1. that he had butterflies in his stomach.2. to go out and paint the town red.3. under the weather all week.4. handle her with kid gloves.5. it was duck soup.

Associez le début de chaque phrase à la fin qui luicorrespond :

Réponses :a) 3. (to be under the weather ne pas être dans son assiette)

b) 1. (to have butterflies in one’s stomach avoir le trac).

c) 5. (it’s duck soup c’est du gâteau).

d) 2. (to paint the town red faire la nouba).

e) 4. (to handle s.o. with kid gloves prendre des gants avec qn)

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