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Luck--and a yachtsman's robust health--granted Signac some 40 years more than Seurat got. But he never painted better than he did in the late 1880s and early 1890s. His best pictures of the Cote d'Azur--of Cassis, of St.-Tropez--possess a wonderful rigor, density and subtlety of color. The danger inherent in pointillism was that all those microdots, if their tonal relations were not perfectly controlled, could look like a bad case of measles. In his middle years Signac almost always avoided this. The seascapes become what they are meant to be: a vibration...
...Laden can afford far more than that. The son of a billionaire Saudi construction magnate, he has an estimated net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars, including real estate in Paris, London and the Cote d'Azur, and as much as $150 million in stock. He runs a portfolio of legitimate businesses across North Africa and the Middle East. Companies in sectors ranging from shipping to agriculture to investment banking throw off profits while also providing cover for al-Qaeda's movement of soldiers and procurement of weapons and chemicals. Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl, a 10-year bin Laden...
...France, many Americans are drawn to the sunny Provence-Cote d'Azur region, but prices are much lower in Brittany, Normandy and central France. A fixer-upper can be found for as little as $150,000, and rentals are equally attractive. A two-bedroom ski chalet in Haute-Savoie rents for $300 a month. A one-bedroom flat in central Paris goes for about $2,000 a month, as does a four-bedroom home near the beach in Nice. "Americans can find great deals on little 19th century chateaus," says Serge Henu, director of the France Chateaux agency in Brittany...
Legislative elections for Cote d'Ivoire will take place Dec. 10, in only nine days. The first test of the Gbagbo administration lies in its capacity to ensure the fairness of these elections; if it fails, Gbagbo has little hope of establishing national unity...
Macani Toungara '02, a Crimson editor, lives in Eliot House. She is secretary of the Harvard African Students Association and lived in Cote d'Ivoire for seven years...