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To: jlallen who wrote (485034)	6/2/2009 1:05:50 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574002

Go back and read what I wrote. The headline gives the impression that 60% of her rulings were reversed. Someone in the legal profession knows that means only the rulings that were appealed but the average person doesn't know that.

To: jlallen who wrote (485034)	6/2/2009 1:08:44 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574002

Sweet reward for town, bakery in rural N.H. after Embassy renews visa Residents of Colebrook, New Hampshire got their wish this week after the U.S. Embassy in Paris reversed a decision that would have shuttered the town's small French bakery. By SARAH SCHWEITZER The Boston Globe Le Rendez-Vous, a French bakery in Colebrook, N.H., is owned by Verlaine Daeron. The fate of the shop was in jeopardy until the community rose up in protest. COLEBROOK, N.H. — When the boulangerie opened eight years ago in the hardscrabble town of Colebrook near the Canadian border, there was no reason to think it would survive even a day. Baguettes were not in high demand. Indeed, residents who poked heads in the shop often eyed the skinny loaves suspiciously before screwing up the courage to ask what they were. Bets were placed that the Parisian owners would close and move back to France. But Le Rendez-Vous, a bit of the Left Bank, with its gleaming exposed-wood beams, tinkling strains of Vivaldi, stuffed sofas and antique cuckoo clocks, soon was drawing locals and visitors alike for its almond croissants and apple tarts, which sold out every afternoon. Town residents helplessly watched as a worsening economy forced the closure of paper mills, layoffs at the nearby Ethan Allen factory, and the shuttering of the Ford dealership. Through it all, Le Rendez-Vous, with its baskets of crusty loaves and paintings of Paris scenes, was a remarkable success. So when word came in April that the bakery was shutting down — not because of the economy, but because the U.S. Embassy in Paris refused to renew the owner's visa — the townspeople were vexed. Federal bureaucrats, they were told, had decided the bakery did not make enough of a profit to warrant a renewal. The community rose up in protest. "We'd lost enough," said Steve Colby, 71, a retired machinist. "We didn't need to lose anything more up here." They began sending letters to the embassy. They lobbied their members of Congress. They signed a petition by the hundreds and sent it to U.S. diplomats several thousand miles away. Their argument: The bakery might not earn huge sums of money, but it contributed plenty to the community, providing a place for residents to gather, while offering hope that a small business, even one as unlikely as the boulangerie, could thrive in their town. "You cannot imagine what they did for me," said Verlaine Daeron, 51, a former nurse-turned-bakery owner. She said her visa application folder at the U.S. Embassy in Paris contained 2 pounds of letters from Colebrook-area residents and added: "It's a very, very nice town." Colebrook residents got their wish this week. The embassy reversed its decision and granted Daeron her visa, according to Daeron and the New Hampshire state director for Republican Sen. Judd Gregg, who was briefed by State Department officials on the case. A State Department spokeswoman, Laura Tischler, said the department does not comment on individual visa cases. As word of the reversal trickled out and anxious residents tucked into Le Rendez-Vous, Marc Ounis, Daeron's business partner, stood smiling with arms folded over his apron and baker's whites offering the exact answer they wanted to hear: The bakery would remain open. seattletimes.nwsource.com