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...first glance, last week's 287-217 parliamentary vote granting the island of Corsica increased autonomy may look like another exercise in partisan politics. France's leftist majority dutifully supported the government of Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, while the conservative opposition just as predictably snubbed it. In reality, however, the bill is causing division even within political parties and may set off significant changes in France's highly centralized governing structure...
DIED. FRANCIS YOHANNAN, 79, World War II bombardier and inspiration for the antihero Captain Yossarian in Joseph Heller's satiric novel Catch-22; in Spokane, Wash. Yohannan, who served with Heller in Corsica, was not a rebel; in the Air Force, he earned a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Bronze Star...
...Will plans first release in 45 years. They just don't make totalitarians like they used to Losers ANNE ROBINSON Named "fashion's Weakest Link" by critic Mr. Blackwell and likened to "Harry Potter in drag." That's one brave fashion critic BERNARD BONNET Ex-Governor of Corsica found guilty of arson after ordering the destruction of illegal caf?s. The Guv alleged they were harboring stale p?t? RUSSELL CROWE Chubbed-up "Gladi-eater" is told by studio to shed 19 kilos. Imagine outgrowing Meg Ryan and all your leather singlets in the same year...
...their high school let out at noon one Friday last month, Loren Wells and her four best friends embarked on two time-honored teenage traditions. First they went to the mall to shop for gowns for the junior prom this spring. Then they piled into Loren's black Chevrolet Corsica to go for a spin. At 3:45 that afternoon, a few miles from her home in Media, Pa., Loren's car began to drift off the highway, the sort of mistake seasoned drivers make--and correct--all the time. Sixteen-year-old Loren, who had got her license just...
Before a crowd of about 200 people, Heller read passages from Now and Then relating to his childhood in Coney Island and his experiences as an aviator stationed in Corsica during World...