A lighter posting : Chirac's "health problems".

As we mentioned in a previous posting, Chirac has been hospitalized since the beginning of the week. It is incredible to see the big fuss made of this here in France.
Because of the series of minimalist medical bulletins describing the president's health and the long French tradition of near-total secrecy regarding the health of its leaders, all sortsof crazy rumors keep spreading. This has also reignited a debate about the secrecy surrounding the health of French heads of state. This debate also has to do with the French highly protective view of private life.
It is true that secrecy about world leaders reminds us of it another age as Le Monde newspaper said in an editorial Tuesday.
"In France, we practice a cult of secrecy which would have done the Kremlin in the former Soviet Union proud,"
The latest news is that the French president is supposed to leave hospital this week.