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...extra-sports' contract - getting players to wear Airness in their private life once their on-field obligations were over," he says. Koné's French-African roots were key to signing stars such as Didier Drogba - an Ivorian who plays for the top English team, Chelsea - and Djibril Cissé, currently with Liverpool. Those ties also allowed Koné to go to the next level: signing Airness as official uniform supplier to several French pro clubs, and half a dozen national squads in Africa. Next season, London club Fulham joins that stable, with an added plus: Fulham's owner Mohamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hippest Cat in France | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...French army behaving like an occupying force." Hundreds of British, American, Belgian, Dutch and Lebanese nationals, as well as more than 3,000 French residents were evacuated. "We are ready to fight for our freedom, to fight for our rights and liberty of Ivorians," vowed local evangelical preacher Cissé Abdou at an anti-French demo last week. French President Jacques Chirac - with the U.N.'s blessing - sent 4,600 troops to Ivory Coast in late 2002; they are trying to enforce a fragile 2003 peace agreement between government forces in the south and insurgents controlling the north. Combatants will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worldwatch | 11/14/2004 | See Source »

...decades to come, devastated Iraqis?maimed, orphaned, destroyed?will live in pain because of a fate they did not choose? We were so pleased to arrest the monster Saddam that we seem to have ignored the high human cost of the West's longtime support of his regime. Ousmane Ciss Kingersheim, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

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