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...theme park in 2002 adjacent to Disneyland Paris. "Les Studios Disney" will cost $650 million, and will offer behind-the-scenes looks at the movies. "Disney has succeeded in making a visit to the theme park an integral part of the Paris tourist itinerary," says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. "It?s now up there on the list of must-see sites with the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe." Last year, its 12.5 million visitors made Disneyland Paris Europe?s most popular tourist attraction...
...every French production they see ?- and a U.S. corporation's molding its products to European tastes. "Disney had to let go pretty quickly of its strict codes, replacing many of its American-trained senior staff with European officials who had a better sense of what would work here," says Crumley. "So there are a lot more sit-down restaurants compared with the initial emphasis on fast food, and those restaurants serve wine. Prices on souvenirs and accommodations are lower, too." The rival Parc Ast?rix, based on the popular French cartoon series, just can?t compete in Disney?s league: France...
...authored peace plan, which were bluntly rejected by mediators. With the Kosovar Albanians now ready to sign, the focus is once again on forcing the hand of the Serbs. "The original premise of the talks was that the fundamentals of the agreement are nonnegotiable," says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. "The Serbs won't be allowed to renegotiate it. And with NATO threatening to bomb him into compliance, the question may once again become how much punishment Milosevic is prepared to take...
...offensive in Kosovo Tuesday, torching three villages in their pursuit of Kosovo Liberation Army rebels. The renewed fighting may have helped persuade the Kosovars to play ball with NATO. "Although the deal falls short of the KLA's goal of independence, it weakens Milosevic's hold on Kosovo," says Crumley. "They also realized that their signature was a precondition to any NATO bombing of Milosevic's forces." For the heavily outgunned KLA, signing an imperfect deal is still a cost-effective way of calling in an air strike...
...French company, and focused on where the buck stopped -- Herv?'s failure to stop the distribution of untreated blood supplies when their connection to AIDS was known. Perhaps the trial's most important legacy will be that the traditional French deference to elites has been shaken a bit, says Crumley. "This case has set a precedent to make people more willing to take politicians to task for their actions. In the U.S. two of them would have been in prison, and Fabius's career would be over...